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Originally Posted by baronWastelan
Well, I know you're smart enough to know the answer, but for the benefit of any youngsters reading ... 
any gasoline powered car can be driven to speeds beyond the capabilities of the driver and road surface. Active safety technology, such as Traction Control and All-Wheel-Drive, can entice some drivers to push the car beyond the drivers' capabilities. But the passive safety technology built into modern cars will prevent injury and death to those drivers who obey the traffic laws and get crashed into by other negligent drivers. For a driver who can't control himself to drive within the posted speed limit, an MG may have a slight lower chance of fatality to its driver since he will often get frightened before things get out of hand.
In the case of a mid-90's car like the Porsche 911 Carrera, you have the benefit of the passive safety of airbags, crumple zones, plastic fuel tank well protected deep within the front compartment, without the enticements of the electronic active safety features like Traction Control, PSM, PASM, SPASM (?) or whatever other acronyms they have these days. 
I guess what I'm trying to explain is the concept of tailoring the features of the car to fit the characteristics of the driver, in order to maximise chances of survival. |
I'm sorry, but this is a bit preposterous..
Let's get one thing clear: Porsche makes cars that are not meant for the road, Volkswagen does. Do you really need a road car that does 140mph? I don't think so. Besides, you're always gonna find someone with a car bigger than yours, most of the SUVs out there have the bumper at the height of my head in my car, how's that supposed to be safe?
It's the illusion of safety that they're selling you, truth is that you can kill yourself (or get killed) both with an MG and a Porsche.