Yes, I had a G-reg Escort. Weighed 830 kg empty, so I added 10 percent to its mass by getting in. The L-reg Astra that replaced it was an expensive mistake in many ways, but it had door beams and a steering wheel airbag, as well as being 200 kg heavier, so I suspect it would have been a better car to crash. The early 1990s was the time the mass market woke up to crashworthiness as a sales issue.
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