European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 10 the stars stripes August i of May have noted an item last month wherein transportation Secretary Brock Adams ordered All Amos manufactured after Model year i9w to be equipped with airbags or another form of automatic crash Adams cited a transportation depart ment study that claimed passive lately restraints could save up to lives a immediately after Adams the famous consumer advocate Ralph Nader lashed out at the transportation saying the order should be made effective immediately As Long air lives a year Are at sounds but in the same it was mentioned that Only 20 to 25 per cent of the occupants of Carson bother to Wear Al though cars must be equipped with scat cats or every occur no safety concerns that 2025 per cent figure is abysmally and it makes one wonder about naders what Nader wants now and Adams has ordered for 1984 an interesting Date Are passive restraints for the 75 to 80 per cent of the people who apparently could not care less about their own person Al if one is too Lazy to buckle the very cell enl inertia reel scat balt harnesses in today cars t u takes All a about three seconds that is his or her and if an Accident Well Ceat la when a Jet takes everyone buckles up with no questions but when a car leaves the Only 20 to 25 per cent and Roud travel is enormously More dangerous than commercial air the Airbus wont come and along with the every study Ive read shows that an Overly shoulder Seatbelt harness is far More effective than an air bag Ever will an airbag is Good Only for Headon a bag would be effective in crashes or nor would a bag Slop an occupant from being hurled from a a major cause of death among Seatbelt and who can tie certain that an airbag will work after storage for five years or for that will a bag work the first week the belts work Seal balls and theres no guess work about every racing Driver uses Ive seen racing Drivere Wulk away unharmed from accidents that were simply anyone who has Cov ered automobile racing for any length of time will attest to regarding Soal Bell harness use on Pas in Ger three time world Champion Jackie Stewart once said he drive around a Block without buckling regarding the airbag mandate from transportation Boss the Chrysler present rate of use of Between 20 and 25 per Are saving As Many As 100 per cent air cushions 1 Secretary Adams decision is not kites we will do the Best Job we can in providing passive air cushions that give the Best Protection at the lowest Cost possible for our customers hut in this just As was the Case with air pollution we believe such important and costly decisions should be based on More reliable scientific so now airbags May become just As seat heats were few years remember when the cars Start unless the Bells were buckled a Fine idea for the but a pain or those of us who always use but no that Law listed Only a and Congress was blitzed with and the Law was tossed out the the Detroit Auto Industry had spent millions to perfect the and within a that no car Start Belt system didst come and along with the Cost paid by the naders revered consumer shelled out so if the air bag order is not overturned by the consumer will be paying More for a safety system that is strictly second rate when compared the Belt system already in and simply because 75 to 80 per cent of the people refuse to Wear the lifesaving Bells Treyve already paid for in their new makes you Doest it Mercedes Wagon gets names record jeep sates american motors had some Good news recently when it reported that its jeep subsidiary established an Alllice monthly sales record in june when four wheel drive vehicles were it marked Only the second Lime in sales annals uial jeep dealers sold More than vehicles in a the old Mark of units the new Mercedes station Wagon which Oalmer Biz is launch ing in Lime for the Frankfurt Auto new has a time five of them in in Normal Marc coct Hitt new models will be marked by engine she number in this was set in april of this sales in june were 28 per cent above the vehicles delivered in the same month a year since the 1977 Model year began last of retail sales have totalled an increase of 21 Pur cent Abuys the total of for the nine months ended june 10 at Dale Vic president of Market ing for american said total jeep sales for the 1977 Model year should exceed for the first speaking of three Are entered by american learns in the to be flagged off on with other Independent jeep entrants from Scotland and a jeep cj6 finished first in the Juric Eldrine class and fifth Overall in the 1974 Londo Africa Munich world cup american motors is offering Bonus prize Munty to jeep with an additional prize Money if a jeep wins if a jeep wins the 4whceldrive hats the taller for tourism find and takes the entire vhf Wagon now to numbers there will be iwo dec Eunmi Slons of the Zmud and to old Ihnn the Normal Jot and r Worth while a second place in division is Worth Frankfurt Auto show additional details on the Frankfurt Auto show have with the list of partly lilting firms naw listed at from 28 including Mauzac lures of Trail ers and vehicle spare parts and a and tools and utensils for maintaining and repairing Alt of he worlds car manufacturers will be rep resented with their latest models the show will run 11 from is to and will be held at the downtown fair grounds with signs All aver town pointing the As in past the new cars will be featured in Falls and As the Paris and London shows wont be held this the Frank full exhibition takes on added Randy Barnett i q v2 bidding that present Belt systems will save 50 per cent More lives than Gas View also discussing the general motors president Estes said recently that pm has More data than anyone based on our experience with pm air Cushion equipped but we still do not have enough statistical information to say conclusively that or Cushion passive restraint systems Are More effective or less effective than no restraints at tie very sketchy data we do have Indi Cates that Lap and shoulder at their front cwt 01 the new Mercury be carries the famous name of the Lincoln Zephyr blurt by the Ford motor company from 1336 to the Mercury to be introduced this replaces the Culet while the Ford aerodynamic heritage Fairmont Over from the venera ble the new Zephyr and Fairmont will share a common body but have different front and rear end the old revolution Ary for its was derived from a prototype designed by John and exhibited at the 1sj3 Ford lion of Progress la mkt original much Effort Hai 7j expended to make the new i dynamically Ford 1
