Both the VW bus and beetle are nr 10 and 4 respectively on the deadliest car list, prominently flashed on Yahoo's Canadian home page this morning. (maybe time to switch email provider?) http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1145/deadliest-car-designs Is there any objective truth to this? I once saw an article that despite the obvious challenges in making a forward cab vehicle safe in head on collisions, the T3 bus/vanagon is in fact one of the least accident prone vehicles in the insurance statistics. Obviously accidents are caused by vehicle plus driver. (The no 6, Corvette, on the list might have been safer if marketed as an "Oldsmobile" to that segment of GM customers.) My guess is that the list is a product of a clueless journalist who did little real research. If someone can find true statistics on vehicle models and deaths and then enough of us email Yahoo, with these facts maybe they would feel compelled to up their quality of journalism? Martin
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