More bad news for Ford! :-(

[Mustangbelle306]

Originally posted by Mercury
I am not failing to see any point. If you dig deep enough I'm sure there is a flaw in every system on the automobile. Whats is also not being considered is the frequency of these tragic events, and a failure to see it from a bussiness perspective.

My point is, no matter how you hard you try to design a safe system, its just not going to be a hundered percent safe, there is going to be a flaw somewhere. Look at Nascar. They have all kinds of measures to cut back or prevent fires.Kinda like trying to design a "Safe" FireCracker, that will be gaurenteed not to blow up in your hand. Wont happen.

When you have a voilatie substance like gas, and an impact carrying as much force as these car accidents, what else can you expect. It does not matter where on the car the fuel tank is located, its going to happen. Sure some places are better that others (Ask GM)but no matter where you put it, its in the way, and can rupture and burst into flames.

Think about moving the gas tank. Think about the amount of engineering that would have to go back into the car. Think of how it would affect the balance and handling charectoristics of the car. Think about how they would have to change things from spring rates to shocks,track and many other variables to get the car to handle in an acceptable manner.

Its easy to say when not given the task of doing so.

I'm not for big bussiness at all, but I'm definetly not for people trying to get something for nothing.

I guess I feel the way I do because I drove around a death trap (sarcasam) for so long before buying a new 2000 model Death trap (I'm sure thats what the media will brand it.).

I'm not going to whine and complain and sue Ford if my car catches fire in an accident. And anyone who gives second thoughts to buying another ford because of this, maybe they should check out the design of every other fuel system of the competitors, I'm sure you'll be surprised to find some similarities.

Look at the 1st gen Mustang. People say the same thing. I'll never buy one because there dangerous. BUt they drive off in a 60 NOva, or Chevy 2, or even a Camaro which has the same design.

OMG..for the thousandth time, NO ONE said anything about driving a 100% automobile, just don't fudge test results and...oh nevermind.

I give up this discussion. Reminds me of the Clinton argument..."who cares if he perjured himself?? All politicians lie" So I will drop it. Its the "settle for it" attitude that explains many subpar aspects of the world that exists in 2002...