Date:         Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:18:33 PDT
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Subject:      Re: How safe is it?
Comments: To: jwalker@bama.ua.edu
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I thought it was 218' 70-0 for a Vanagon... which is the same as a 1982
Honda Civic... its not the SUV which is so dangerous - its the person
driving them - and they would be dangerous no matter what they were
driving...


>From: Joel Walker <jwalker@bama.ua.edu>
>Reply-To: Joel Walker <jwalker@bama.ua.edu>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: How safe is it?
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:15:58 -0500
>
> > 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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