why are automatics so messy

Oklacarcollecto said

Taurus is my favorite Ford car because of how they hold up in a bad wreck. having worked in the salvage business I saw a lot of them totaled but the cabin always stayed pretty much intact even in a roll over. Of course we didn't have one that collided with a semi or ran off a mountain either.

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I agree with you on their cabin structural strength. My wife was driving my mom's 95 Sable (same thing) and got t-boned by a full size FedEx delivery truck. My wife was 7 months pregnant with my son at the time. Aside from some soft-tissue damage (torsion whiplash) my wife walked away from the accident without a scratch. Sitting inside the car after the accident, you couldn't even tell the car had been in an accident, aside from the broken glass in the back seat. I was very impressed.

My wife, even though the car saved her life, does not like Taurus' or Sables anymore, simply because of the negative connotations they have with her now.