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To: Grainne who wrote (47030)	7/25/1999 2:56:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Had their car not had the defective gas tank, the result would not have been such a disaster. This was not demonstrated. A 70mph impact is enormous, and could easily rupture and ignite even a well-designed gas tank. If they'd been driving a less massive car than a Malibu - say a VW or another small economy car - they would almost certainly have been killed outright, no matter how well the gas tank was designed. I'm generally sympathetic, but the causative relationship here seems awfully shaky to me. I would want to know, for one thing, what level of rear-end impact a safe car is generally designed to withstand. I would guess, though, that it's a good deal less than 70mph.