Date:         Tue, 14 May 2002 20:55:16 -0700
Reply-To:     DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Safety of the Vanagon
In-Reply-To:  <B906DE6D.8CF4%eric@seniornet.org>
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>I hope this isn't a tired thread, and if this has been done a ton of times
>and is archived, just let me know where I can look at them, and I will.
>
>---
>
>So my biggest hindrance to buying my van was the safety factor. I talked to
>mechanics and their response to my concerns was, "Just don't hit anything."
>
>Sound advice if you ask me.
>
>But I kept looking and found the Volvo/Van crash photos where the van
>demolished the volvo. That was comforting. Then I drove them and I
>actually feel quite safe since I'm so high up. It's a joy to drive, and I
>feel like I've been a safer, more defensive driver, since I started, but I'm
>still wondering how these things do in real life crashes.

In that same thread, I contributed this:

>But I'm astounded to find this information on Folksam's (the Swedish
>insurance company) web site: it rates the 80-91 Caravelle (that's the
>same as our flat-four Vanagon, right?) in the *highest* safety category.
>
>< http://www.folksam.se/forskning/trafik/sakra_bilar/bilListaengelsk.htm >
>
>Right up there with the Chrysler Voyager!  :-#
>
>While it's only a mark on a chart, I am quite encouraged.

FWIW.

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