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8 May 2008Sorry, Sasquatch, you'll have to walkThe only Volvo on my Will Consider Next Time list is the smallish C30, and I may have to rethink that in the light of this bit of news:
A court has ordered a Volvo dealer to pay £1,350 to a customer whose feet are too big to use the accelerator on his new car.
The judge in the German town of Wiesloch said the manufacturer should have catered for Michael Herzog's size 12 feet. He went to court complaining the area around the accelerator of his new Volvo C70 coupe was too small to accommodate his feet. The court ruled his feet were not abnormally large and the judge said the dealer should give the German five per cent off the price of his new car. I assume Mr Herzog's pedal dimensions are expressed in British terms, since the Eurostandard for ginormous clodhoppers calls for numbers in the upper 40s and beyond. That said, a British size 12 is about the same as an American size 12½, which is far from huge. (Says the guy who wears a 14.) One question remains unanswered: didn't he test drive his Swedish steed? (Via Autoblog.) Posted at 8:03 AM to Say What? |