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Date:         Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:15:58 -0500
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker@bama.ua.edu>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Walker <jwalker@bama.ua.edu>
Subject:      Re: How safe is it?
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> The slogan for the school of SUV 'safety' design:  "Kill or be killed."


hot damn!! Road Warz!!! Death Race 2000 (which, by the by, is a funny
comedy, if you don't mind a lot of pedestrians getting killed and a really
really really stupid 'plot'. and some really bad acting by sylvester
stallone (i THINK it was his first movie)). :)


> Notice it says nothing about good brakes?  The Ford Expedition takes 220
> feet to stop from 70 MPH, the late 80's VW Jetta GLI, 175 feet. Any one
know >what the figures are for the Vanagon?


a syncro camper was tested at 70-0 in 191 feet. so us lighter weight
non-syncro non-campers should do a lot better. i THINK i recall like 184
feet, but it might have been lower.


actually, i don't worry so much about stopping before i hit the things in
front of me ... i worry more about that tailgating moron in the Ford
Expedition who's gonna take every bit of his 220 feet to stop!!! :(
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