First belt up, then take off (question of the week)
We've probably never had so many zeros. Four of the seven possible answers in our last "Question of the Week" received less than one percent of the 473 votes and therefore had a zero in front of the decimal point. Two of them even had no supporters at all. Well then. What did we expect? Anyone who values active driver assistance systems is certainly not driving a classic car - and the reverse conclusion is obvious. The vast majority of classic car drivers can even do without ABS and airbags
According to our readers, the most important (and, judging by the clear survey results, probably the only important) safety equipment in classic cars is the seatbelt, whether static or automatic. Almost half of those surveyed (45.5 percent) do not want to do without the protective textile belt. This is followed by 39.5 percent of those who can do without all passive safety features and who believe that seat belts offer the best protection for attention at the wheel.
Third place once again goes to the joker: 14.2 percent of readers do not feel well represented by any of the given answer options. And that is to some extent our fault. Because we completely forgot one safety feature that is very frequently found in classic cars and which was recommended to us in a reader's letter as one of the first retrofits: the headrest. Or was the roll bar even missing?
Whether with a supported head, a fixed torso or simply with an alert gaze: Take a trip to the petrol station and tell us what you put in your (favorite) classic car. In the increasingly confusing range of fuel types and blends, we are interested in which of them are relevant for classic cars: in our new "Question of the Week".
As usual, you can read the results of previous "Questions of the Week" in our topic channel.
