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From: lizv@tektools.UUCP (Liz Vaughan)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Red Cars and Rabbit going fast
Message-ID: <233@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 18:30:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 18:30:18 1985
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Reply-To: lizv@tektools.UUCP (Liz Vaughan)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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>Actually, I have begun to notice a correlation between the color
>or make of a car and the driving habits of the owner. For
>examples, the "children"* tend to drive red cars, usually
>Rabbit/GTI convertables or the little BMW's (530i's, I think).

Some insurance companies give you "danger" points (or whatever they call 
them) for driving a red car.  Black is also frowned upon, but not
as badly -- I suppose they figure Joe can't hot-rod TOO much in 
the old Model T.  As a red car owner, this sucks, but I
must admit that observation seems to support giving red-car drivers
higher risk ratings.  (Maybe the color affects the mind :-)

A related topic is insurance company notions of "sportscars."  
Insurance for my Scirrocco is ~$100 more than that for a Rabbit
same year, same color. Why? It's a SPORTS CAR.  The two cars
have identical engines and gearing, though the Scirocco is
slightly (~200 lbs.) lighter.  You figure this out.

>The "slowpokes" tend to drive large American cars [can you spell
>tank].

What? You've never heard of the "Society for Old Men Wearing Hats
Driving Ancient Oldsmobiles at Twenty MPH on the Freeway Whilst
Arguing with their Wives Named Madge"?

This venerable institution has chapters in every hamlet in America --
and its numbers are growing.....


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