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To: Rambi who wrote (31918)	7/14/1999 7:20:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

The truck case was exposed as a fraud I seem to remember. The "testing" firm had affixed igniters to the gas tanks. Big stink when that story broke, but not as big as the stink over supposedly unsafe Chev trucks. The consumer audience is selective sometimes. As for reasonable safety standards - they are continually evolving. I expect the gas tank integrity requirements for a new Dodge Caravan to be much tougher than those mandated for a '79 Malibu. And if the crasher really was going 70mph - I feel (jmo of course - I'm no struc/safety engineer) that it'd be tough to design around the risk of bursting the tank. At those speeds, metal on pavement provides all the spark you need, so bursting the tank is the hinge.