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You've Gotta Love Spin

Rather than saying outright that the forfour was a failure and it was going to cost smart about a billion euros to wrap things up and bring the smart division under the Mercedes umbrella, the smart press release was all about "Focusing on the smart fortwo." The folks at Airbus must drink the same PR Kool-Aid because they announced that there evacuation test of the new A380 was a 'great success' even though 33 people were hurt including a man who broke his leg. Granted they were only using half of the exits and most injuries were the equivalent of rug burn, but "great success" still seems to be a bit strong. I'll give them this, close to 900 people exiting in 80 seconds is an achievement. Joe brings up a good question, "How many of these people were 'ordinary'"?