My sister in-law was involved in a serious accident on Sunday :-( She drives a 99 Bonneville. I have seen the front of this car and it has a 1.5 ft crush zone before the radiator and then a long engine compartment. I was impressed when I first saw this (before accident). It also has airbags. She t-boned a driver that pulled out in front of her in a Toyota Celica. The other driver was cited. Everyone walked out but her. She is having her femur pinned this morn. Case in point... even todays american vehicles with advanced safety design didn't let her escape a serious injury. The vanagon (& German engineering) still rate very high with me. Sean
>From: Ron Lussier <coyote@MACROMEDIA.COM> >Reply-To: Ron Lussier <coyote@MACROMEDIA.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: Vanagon safety and design? >Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:11:28 -0800 > > > His main issue (along with lack of power and crappy gas > > mileage) was safety > > and design. He said Vanagons just fold up like an accordion > > when hit. He > > basically said the design was terrible and that it was > > analogous to he and > > I went going into a garage and building a car. He > > specifically mentioned > > the how everything was run by cables that run underneath the > > car, and that these are susceptible to corrosion, etc. > >See http://www.vanagon.com/info/safety/ > >-- /\_/\ ____ >Ron 'Coyote' Lussier ( ) \ _/__ Macromedia, Inc. >coyote@macromedia.com \ / \X / San Francisco, CA >1.650.481.4847 \_/ \/ 1991 Vanagon Syncro Westy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com |
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