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Old 16-01-2012, 08:45 PM   #1
vanman_75
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An interesting little tid bit came about at our prestart this morning , bma bhp billiton ... they are forceing upon all the local mines to make our light vehicles " occupant safe sooo - all our vehicles are to be replaced with vehicles that dont require rops ( roll over protection ) to provide less intrusion in the vehicle , and less change to a vehicles dynamics .

So ranger was the key vehicle raised to replace all utes / wagons extra .now in house / on site we have hundreds of cruisers /patrols / prados/hiluxs etc etc....all to go .With all the boom etc rollovers are becoming more common and if you have drivin a car with full rops , you would know how bad they drive .
dont know all the details and not sure if its a government push ( we had it with cruiser utes ...only 1 airbag ...2 years later cruiser has 2 as they lost all our business)...but it will shake up safety on all these vehicles if it becomes law - or site required .
Ranger i am assumeing ( with zero research) has 5 star , so a big winfall if it all comes about for ford ...maybe we should grab ranger for aus ,might just be a good excuse if numbers go through the roof ?

just thought i would put it out there if anyone else is going this route , got my attention anyway .

( these rangers wanna be good cause we are gunna give em hell )looking forward to it though

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