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Date:         Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:15:09 -0700
Reply-To:     DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon crash safety
In-Reply-To:  <200204082159.g38LxUF03082@mail.aros.net>
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> >You don't have to believe in pillows and springs and socialism to know >>that the Vanagon is not very safe in a frontal collision. > >The only thing that would be of value is hard data, and I haven't seen any >yet. Anything other than that is pure conjecture. There are many vehicles >that a Vanagon would run right over the top of, so there is no way the >above statement has any merit. > >It certainly looks to be unsafe, but then so does a vanagong going around >a corner, but in truth, its pretty stable. SUVs look safe, but we have >learned that they are not. Looks can be, and usually are, deceiving. > >>It's all about mass. The Vanagon has precious little where it counts. > >Its all about guessing what will happen, but not really knowing.

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There will never be any new hard data on a long-discontinued model such as the Vanagon. So conjecture and model physics will have to do.

You can conjecture what a 2-ton front-engine SUV will do when it meets a 2-ton Vanagon. One has a 1/2-ton engine in front of the passengers. The other has scarce sheet metal. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out the *probable* outcome.

I like the Vanagon. But I don't delude myself on it's capability to protect my body in a worst-case scenario.

Dave -- Dave Carpenter

Whatever you wish for me, May you have twice as much.

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. Clarke


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