In article , writes
Hmm. Did you actually investigate whether they were any safer, or
were merely claimed to be by people with an interest in doing so?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Actually although off topic and can answer you here.
A friend who was a taxi driver about 7 years ago, very stockily built
and no weed would have most definitely have been killed had he not been
driving a Volvo.
This was confirmed b the firemen and police at the scene.
He had pulled up at a roundabout and behind him was a lorry. He just
happened to look in his mirror and realised that the driver on the
phone, had not noticed the slowing down and stopping.
He had split seconds to fling himself across the front seats as the van
actually drover OVER the top of the Volvo and came to rest as so!

Though squashed down the rood stayed up in the Volvo just enough for him
to breather although not move.
The police thought he was surely killed but as they winched the van off
the top he managed to wiggle his hand.
So yes i do believe that Volvos are safer than many cars.
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On 03/04/2012 06:07 PM, Bill Grey wrote:
When I had a bit of whinge about the cost of one item, the chap at the
Volvo
garage said "That's the privilege of owning a Volvo "

Certainly one of the dangers of the car. Although as I mentioned quality
is apparently improved.

BTW I am neither of low intelligence not overloaded with cash:-)

Heh, that was my line.

Sorry! The correct identity of the poster was lost in an effort to snip .
So many quotes confused things. Thanks for the smiley :-)

Bill

Nick wrote

Bob Hobden wrote:
Nick wrote .

Hmm. Did you actually investigate whether they were any safer, or
were merely claimed to be by people with an interest in doing so?

Always interesting to check the actual crash test results if looking for a
"safe" car ....

True, but whether they are likely to get you into a crash is FAR
more important! At one stage, Volvos had a very bad reputation
for that, due to a tendency to lose control under poor conditions.
And it wasn't just the incompetence of the drivers, though that
didn't exactly help ....

However, that was decades back. What the recent situation is, I
haven't a clue.


That is the old and continuing argument, do you want a safe car to crash in
or one that is so nimble it avoids the crash in the first place.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

In article ,
Bob Hobden wrote:

Hmm. Did you actually investigate whether they were any safer, or
were merely claimed to be by people with an interest in doing so?

Always interesting to check the actual crash test results if looking for a
"safe" car ....

True, but whether they are likely to get you into a crash is FAR
more important! At one stage, Volvos had a very bad reputation
for that, due to a tendency to lose control under poor conditions.
And it wasn't just the incompetence of the drivers, though that
didn't exactly help ....

However, that was decades back. What the recent situation is, I
haven't a clue.

That is the old and continuing argument, do you want a safe car to crash in
or one that is so nimble it avoids the crash in the first place.

No, not at all. The situation was that they actually caused the
crashes, by being so unforgiving that most drivers couldn't keep
them on the road, and so they needed the safety features merely
to be no more dangerous than other cars!

Nimbleness had nothing to do with it - quite the contrary, in fact,
because it was instability that caused the trouble,


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 03/05/2012 12:05 AM, Bill Grey wrote:
BTW I am neither of low intelligence not overloaded with cash:-)

Heh, that was my line.
Sorry! The correct identity of the poster was lost in an effort to snip .
So many quotes confused things. Thanks for the smiley :-)

No, you had the attribution right. It was that your response echoed my
sentiments.

cheers,

-E

"Emery Davis" wrote in message
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On 03/05/2012 12:05 AM, Bill Grey wrote:
BTW I am neither of low intelligence not overloaded with cash:-)

Heh, that was my line.
Sorry! The correct identity of the poster was lost in an effort to snip
.
So many quotes confused things. Thanks for the smiley :-)

No, you had the attribution right. It was that your response echoed my
sentiments.

cheers,

-E

Oh!

Bill