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Old 02-20-2006, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Landshark
i remember reading that the 2002 Imprezas were designed to be twice as rigid as the previous generation. that's why i bought one for the wife - they are safe little tanks.

"ring-shaped reinforcement frames" in the front, center, and rear of the body structure are designed to disperse impact energy around the passenger compartment. the engineers knew what they were doing.
I agree with you complety all iam saying was it was complete luck that the guy getting sandwitched between two semies was pure luck, and the subie probably was one of the smaller factors in him surviving the accident.
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