Surviving un-injured is all about bumpers meeting at the same hight IMO. The vanagon has a great impact absorbing bumper+frame design But what happens when a vanagon crashes head-on with a GMC Suburban with a higher bumper? I think it could mean getting used to a wheelchair for life. That crash test footage between a vanagon and a volvo would make me choose the vanagon. I think the vanagon bumper is about a foot taller than the volvos. Phil 84' westy --- Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM> wrote: > In a message dated 3/17/01 10:17:43 PM, > radish150@earthlink.net writes: > > << I saw one of these vanagons that > had been in a terrible head on collision. Let's just > say I want as much > between > me and them as possible. >> > > Mark, > > I have seen several Vanagons which were hit in the > front and I was always > surprised to see how little intrusion into the > cockpit there was. Of course > this is no crash test, but they seemed to fair quite > well. If you look at > the front stucture of a Vanagon, it appears to be > formed from a bunch of box > sections. I guess a Vanagon is like a motorcycle in > that if you dwell on the > possibilities too much, you will talk yourself out > of operating one. > > Rich
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