Re: [T3] chopped notch

[John Jaranson <jaransonT3@comcast.net>]

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On Nov 1, 2004, at 11:54 PM, Jim Adney wrote:

> On 1 Nov 2004 at 18:18, Jon Remers wrote:
>
> > A chopped car looks strange in a similar way as the
> > waistline will be way too tall in comparison with the
> > roof. The car will look fat and clumsy.
>
> I agree, but there is some new US car that has now come out with this 
> look.
> It's not chopped or lowered, they've just raised the waistline way up. 
> It looks
> like the bottom of the side windows come up to about chin level, 
> rather than
> slightly below the shoulders. To me they look really fat and bulbus, 
> but I
> think I read somewhere that cars would have to start looking like this 
> if we
> expected to be able to make them more crash safe in side impacts.
>
> Is this a Chrysler?
>
> I realize that this may be were we're all headed, but to me it's truly 
> ugly.

Actually it is a styling trend that many of the auto companies are 
going to.  Chrysler has taken it the furthest so far with the 300C/M 
and the Magnum wagon.  But Audis have shown it and some others too.

It really doesnt have as much to do with side impact safety as with 
styling.  The real issue with side impact safety is the lack of 
thickness in the side of the vehicle....just nothing there to crush to 
absorb the impact.

It has grown on me some.  Something I can't say for truly ugly cars 
like the Aztek and most of the other offerings from GM.

Later,
John Jaranson
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