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Date:         Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:44:46 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon crash safety
Comments: To: voicebox@DNAI.COM
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What I hate is all that stuff that was in the rear of the van moves up front to share the front seat with me.

Stan Wilder

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:56:39 -0700 DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM> writes: > >"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." > > > >This is not always the case, > >In head-on collisions Subarus are designed so that the > >engine breaks free and travels under the passenger > >compartment instead of landing in the drivers lap like > >big V-8's often do. > > Not much in a Vanagon that can "break free". There is only the mass > of the front sheet metal to protect you. > > Dave (still likes Vanagons, just knows who's going to win in > contest) > -- > 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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