this is the tango, the "high performance, road hugging, ultra-compact" commuter car. now someone please tell me, how safe would you feel in this car? or maybe safety doesn't matter, because your main priority is getting to the meeting on time while using as little fuel as possible. the scary thing is, is that these cars are becoming increasingly popular- vancouver was flooded with the little go-carts last spring. personally, i drove a subcompact car when i first got my license and i was positive that i would die upon impact if i were to hit even a bird, let alone another car. from that experience, i have only driven moose-proof vehicles for almost a decade.
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Considering it has a massively strong roll cage built in, safety shouldn't be an issue:
"Because safety is such a concern for small cars in particular, we have designed the Tango around a roll cage that meets or exceeds both SCCA and NHRA regulations. These are racing organizations that specify cage design to protect the occupants of cars crashing at over 200 mph. In addition, the extremely high strength-to-surface area ratio of a steel roll cage allows superb visibility from within the Tango. Rollover too is a great danger for many vehicles. The Tango, being so narrow, would look to the layman's eye to be unstable. But in fact, the Tango has stability that exceeds that of most sport cars."
quoted from:http://www.commutercars.com/
you know what, when i posted that, i thought to myself "that was a jon post." i never write about cars.
i do think about what if you were to rear-end a semi truck or get sandwiched between two trucks??? roll-cage or not, i'd still be praying.
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