RE: safety last

["TJ" <tj@domain.elided>]

Volvo.........safe cars for unsafe drivers"

Also, statistically the brand of car most likely to be involved in
accidents with motorcyclists.

TJ

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On Behalf
Of
> Pottree@domain.elided
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 5:06 PM
> To: alfa@domain.elided
> Subject: safety last
> 
> In a message dated 8/25/2002 9:47:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:
> 
> 
> > ....usually the people who drive SUVs are people that know the
> > least about driving, people that think that they are most likely to
get
> in
> > an accident (because of other drivers) and want to surround
themselves
> in
> > as
> > much steel as possible while being in their lazy boy recliner.
> >
> There is a good thought here, one that I have noticed in (USAian)
Volvo
> drivers as well, viz: they are basically lousy drivers, they may have
had
> prior scary experiences as a result, and so they want to buy and armor
> themselves with a "safe" choice because "those other drivers are so
> dangerous."
> 
> This fits right in with the security/empowerment angle takien in the
> market
> positioning of many of these tanks.  People are sold on them not
because
> they
> need such a machine, not because they are heading off across the
tundra in
> search of the wily caribou, but because they feel a trip to Walmart
for
> sunglasses is a dangerous excursion among "others" - dangerous unknown
> people
> who may mean or do them harm, people not like themselves.  This may be
> sick,
> but it sells a lot of SUVs.
> 
> On a related note: I noticed in the NY Times on Sunday a quote from an
> auto
> marketing guru (in suburban Detroit, MI) commenting on the General's
> production "hiatus" on the Camaro/Firebird line, commenting on their
> declining and low  sales (still several hundred thousand units per
annum,
> whaddya make of THAT, Alfa?), that the "young" buyers in the USA were
not
> at
> all Interested in a car with basically two seats a a joke in the rear
> because
> today's yoots want to take their pals along when they sally forth in
> search
> of adventure.  How this jibes with the concept of bringing in the Alfa
> Spider
> to claim a beachfront on the USA market he didn't mention.
> 
> Charlie,
> puzzled in
> LA, CA, USA
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