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Old 01-20-2005, 12:29 AM   #19
Steve4192
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Re: Do Cars have too much horsepower?

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Originally Posted by Unassisted
I think the last paragraph is the most troubling. Young drivers shouldn't be driving those high-performance vehicles.
Those vehicles are a heck of a lot safer than what my peers were driving when I was in high school. Souped-up 1970s rear-wheel drive muscle cars, stripped-down flip-prone jeeps, and rear impact combustion Pintos were the order of the day. Of course, even those beasts were a lot safer than the 1950s model death-traps my dad used to cruise around in as a teenager.

... and the beat goes on.
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