In a message dated 4/7/02 11:31:43 AM, wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET writes: << Tain't necessarily so. The van's front end is hell-for-stout; much more so than a big-assed F**d truck's. Course, you don't have as much crush distance as you would in a conventional layout, either. Don't sell them short, though; the V'gon's a pretty tough nut to crack. Karl Wolz >> Gentlemen (and ladies too), The Vanagon has been built like a tank in the front, but also includes crush zone technology. No need to speculate on how it was designed. Alistair Bell and I have provided you with the original crash test and development work for the Vanagon in the VAG technical paper on the subject. Of course, the article is in German (good time to learn babelfish) but the figures and pictures are multilingual. The website url: http://homepage.mac.com/alistairbell/home/index.html Frank Grunthaner |
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