Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:52:32 -0700
Reply-To: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Safety of the Vanagon
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<P>In the accidents that do occur, broken ankles <BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: DaveC <VOICEBOX@DNAI.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: DaveC <VOICEBOX@DNAI.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Safety of the Vanagon
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 20:55:16 -0700
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>>I hope this isn't a tired thread, and if this has been done a ton
<DIV></DIV>>>of times
<DIV></DIV>>>and is archived, just let me know where I can look at them, and I
<DIV></DIV>>>will.
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>---
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>So my biggest hindrance to buying my van was the safety factor. I
<DIV></DIV>>>talked to
<DIV></DIV>>>mechanics and their response to my concerns was, "Just don't hit
<DIV></DIV>>>anything."
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>Sound advice if you ask me.
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>But I kept looking and found the Volvo/Van crash photos where the
<DIV></DIV>>>van
<DIV></DIV>>>demolished the volvo. That was comforting. Then I drove them and I
<DIV></DIV>>>actually feel quite safe since I'm so high up. It's a joy to drive,
<DIV></DIV>>>and I
<DIV></DIV>>>feel like I've been a safer, more defensive driver, since I
<DIV></DIV>>>started, but I'm
<DIV></DIV>>>still wondering how these things do in real life crashes.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>In that same thread, I contributed this:
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>>But I'm astounded to find this information on Folksam's (the
<DIV></DIV>>>Swedish
<DIV></DIV>>>insurance company) web site: it rates the 80-91 Caravelle (that's
<DIV></DIV>>>the
<DIV></DIV>>>same as our flat-four Vanagon, right?) in the *highest* safety
<DIV></DIV>>>category.
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>><
<DIV></DIV>>>http://www.folksam.se/forskning/trafik/sakra_bilar/bilListaengelsk.htm
<DIV></DIV>>> >
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>Right up there with the Chrysler Voyager! :-#
<DIV></DIV>>>
<DIV></DIV>>>While it's only a mark on a chart, I am quite encouraged.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>FWIW.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Dave
<DIV></DIV>>--
<DIV></DIV>>Dave Carpenter
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Whatever you wish for me,
<DIV></DIV>>May you have twice as much.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I
<DIV></DIV>>think
<DIV></DIV>>we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur
<DIV></DIV>>C.
<DIV></DIV>>Clarke
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