Date:         Mon, 29 May 2006 08:16:47 -0700
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: FRYDAY: RE-OPEN VANAGON ASSEMBLY
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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> >As much as I'd love to see the T3 come back, I'm fairly
> >certain the "cab-over-front-wheels" design is forever gone for
> >non-commercial vehicles.
>
> Tell that to Toyota and Nissan. Fortunately they haven't heard you.


FWIW, my comments were essentially limited to the US market. Safety paranoia
here is rather absurd. Toyota quit importing their van in 89, and we all
know when the T3 ended. You folks in "foreign parts" have it good. You can
still wander in to a Toyota dealership and get a Hiace. Here nothing gets
sold without a meter of crumple zone and a dozen airbags, so Joe Jackass
won't die when he swerves into oncoming traffic and head-on's a
tractor-trailer rig trying to, shave, drink coffee, and answer his cellphone
on the way to work.
-- 
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"