I saw that crash test a couple of months ago when it was posted on The Samba. It was posted after a series of photos depicting a 45 + 45mph offset frontal crash between a Westy and a Chrysler minivan. The Westy driver walked away, the Chrysler people went away in an ambulance. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the VW was repairable, but it wasn't flattened either. See it here: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175672 It cheered me up tremendously! Jake On 7/5/06, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > > At 03:38 PM 7/5/2006 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8&search=vw%20bus > > Woof! So there is a crush space after all. Too bad we're sitting in it. > > This certainly shows the limitations of the "hard front" > philosophy. Do you know the test conditions? Instructive to compare > this with the photos of the Folksam offset-headon test against the Volvo > wagon. > > It's always made me a bit queasy to know that the design philosophy > in effect was to turn the other vehicle's crush space into a shared > resource, trying to save my life at the expense of the other > guy's. This really brings it home in a wrenching way. > > These vehicles -- seriously -- need airbags. Big ones, facing > out. With a thiotimiline trigger. > > > -- > David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" >
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