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The Little Black Box.....were you aware?

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Old Jan 20, 2004 | 06:25 PM
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no no... just say it..
"1992 trofeo is full of ****" and move on... because serously... I have no more to go on then what I have been told/heard about, and I didnt hear the ad directly thats why I could only give a skechy indirect qoute...
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Old Jan 20, 2004 | 06:37 PM
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Allright....those who have been here for awhile, get someone with Onstar to give 'em a ring and lets figure this out. My curiosity has been peaked!
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Old Jan 20, 2004 | 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by CFoote
Allright....those who have been here for awhile, get someone with Onstar to give 'em a ring and lets figure this out. My curiosity has been peaked!
Well I'll speak for GM!
I've been following this thread in the background for awhile now.
According to the GM Techs I work with.....Onstar can't track "****" like this on your car! BTW! Onstar even has hard time just trying to "FIND" your vehicle to begin with! Onstar would have to be actually monitoring every vehicle to do this! & it doesn't as it doesn't have the manpower to accomplish that!
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Old Jan 21, 2004 | 09:12 AM
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Super. That is good to know Thanks!
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Old Jan 22, 2004 | 10:23 PM
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Just thought you guys would be interested in this, published in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...xes-usat_x.htm
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Old Jan 22, 2004 | 10:35 PM
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Yea, ive seen abunch of these.

Quoted from the article "One of the earliest courtroom appearances of a car'* black box came after the high-profile crash that killed former pro football player Jerome Brown in 1992. Brown'* survivors filed a$30 million civil suit that claimed that the air bag on Brown'* high-performance Corvette went off after he hit a pothole and that caused him to hit a tree. Data from the black box showed the air bag deployed on impact as designed, and the survivors lost the case."

note ''1992'', in 1992 the trofeo had more high-tech electronics then of the vette. That One black box saved GM 30 milion bucks, how in hell could GM say no to putting these in?
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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 08:33 PM
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I think that Trofeo is the shiznit! :P
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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 08:45 PM
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Thats a good thing right?
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