<p>I got rear ended last January. The guy who ran into me had his air-bags go off. Mine didn’t. (My car was totalled, but I wasn’t hurt at all, so I wasn’t surprised they didn’t go off. Though I was surprised my car wasn’t worth fixing!)</p>
<p>My son was rear-ended a couple of months ago and the impact forced him into the car ahead of him. His airbag didn’t go off, either, and it was a pretty big impact. He was travelling around 30 mph and the carload of kids who hit him (and sped off) were probably going 40-45. I would have thought that the impact of hitting the car in front of him would have triggered the airbag. Now you’ve got me wondering if it’s defective…</p>
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<p>Excuse me for car-nerding on you, but there is not, nor has there ever been, a car called the “Ford Metro.” There has been a Rambler Metropolitan, a Geo Metro, and a Rover Metro. The smallest US Fords in recent history were the Fiesta, Festiva, Aspire, Escort and Focus. I’m guessing it was a Geo Metro.</p>
<p>Just thought you would like to know…</p>
<p>You are right WD. It was many years ago and my memory failed me. It was a Ford Festiva. Don’t know where Metro came from except I just remembered it was a really tiny car (like a metro).</p>
<p>I had a car that shared the same key with many others( I believe it would unlock the car, but not start the engine) a chrysler mini van ( Toyota also shared this characteristic, but with a difference, their keys would actually start up another car & one day my mother * who was on heavy meds* actually drove another Celica home!)</p>
<p>It was mine, but a shadowy silver blue, a very popular color.
Not only would I often lose it in the parking lot, but one evening, when I went to my “regular” space at the mall, I came back out, opened up the side door to put in my purchases and noticed that " little fairies had tidied it up!".
Relectantly I realized it wasn’t my car and had to keep looking.
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<p>emeraldkity4: you just reminded me of that same thing happening to my husband and his toyota camry. He drove someone else’s car half way home and thought that it was so spotless inside that I must have picked it up and had it cleaned inside and out as a surprise. Ha-ha! Finally he noticed that it wasn’t his car and hurried to take it back. We had a good laugh later.</p>
<p>Ellis, I read an article in the paper a few years back about a man who reported his car stolen from a large shopping mall parking lot. He called the police, they took a report, etc…anyway, the mall closed, and the parking lot emptied out, and there was a car left on the lot the exact same model, make, color, etc., so, the police ran the tags, and it came back with a local address, so, off the police went to that person’s residence, and there was the “stolen” car parked in that man’s driveway - lol, the man drove the wrong car home, parked it, settled down to dinner with his family - can you imagine???</p>
<p>I’m probably about a week away from buying a new car and eliminated a more-or-less silver color when D commented, “Dad, you’ll never find it in a parking lot.” Good point. I’m down to two colors, one elegant but a bit staid, the other with a little more “oomph” and pizzazz, both of which would be easier to located and less likely to confuse with another car.</p>