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yeah there would be more commodore and falcon crashes BUT stats would only help if it was a RATIO figure. So say there are 2 million passenger vehicles in Vic, 5,000 are Skylines, 500,000 are commodores. Say you get 25 skyline crashes, 100 comodore crashes, the ratio for the Skyline crashes are 1:200 and the ratio for commodore is 1:500 - Even tho there are 4 times more commondoor crashes, relatively speaking, there isn't.  

and did you know 78% of statistics are made up?

:)

OMG I bet 54% of all ppl dont no that!!

Yesterday was nice weather as you all know, went for a cruise! However i was a bit pissed off when parked in a car park standing next to the car smokin a ciggie and some dude about 40 rolls past in his commo stationwagon and pops down the window and says ' aww how many of ur other mates have you killed in that car' , obiviously referring to the recent crash with the black skyline. F***ing wanker. I wont tell you what happened after that :) But is this the attitude of people to anyone owning a skyline? This dude was like 40 something...i'm surprised he even knew what a skyline was the fkn knob.

So what if he was 40something? I am and I know what a skyline is... There's a 1998 one parked in my garage and a 1989 VR-4 Galant in Japan waiting for dotars to stop sitting on their hands and send me some paperwork so I can ship the danm thing (it's for the wife).

The guy was a knob because he was a commodore driver, not because he was 40.

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