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Date:         Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:08:59 -0400
Reply-To:     David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Subject:      Re: Car Talk Vanagon caller
Comments: To: Andrew Fox <afox@CNR.COLOSTATE.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310071531110.15270-100000@neota>
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Andrew Fox wrote:
> I think that many assume that the Vanagon is very safe because of the
> famous Swedish insurance company head on crash test:
> http://www.251.org/volvocrash.html.  I think it is clear from the photos
> of that crash test that the vanagon suffered less frontal damage because
> it rode up over the hood of the Volvo.


Yup.  Plus the Volvo had crumple zones it ate into.


If you hit something smaller and less solid you might come out OK.
Frontal impacts with other Vanagons, SUVs, or solid objects are bad news.


--


David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si
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