Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:18:44 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth?
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dear vanagon captain chair sunday journalists
i took a moment to fire off an email comment to the ask men dot calm folks
dear tom
your article is looking poorly researched -- not backed up at all by numbers
.. or even acknowledgment that you have participated or watched any crash
tests ...
by the way the VW Bus has extensive crash test video on youtube ... your
article smacked of coffee table bant-- no actually it reeked of pub talk
after 11 pm -- all speculation with out very much fact --
how many of these vehicles have crashed and what were the injuries compared
to other similar vehicles crashed and their injuries --
you know the standard stuff every crash test dummy knows --- the story
seemed more urban legend than factual based --
but hey it is internet based journalism and i guess the adage holds true --
ya gets what ya pays for--
-- if you are only feeding the information to unknowing 14 year old boys and
girls i guess you can say what you like --
those who own or operate vehicles listed in your top ten deadliest are
likely to have considerable fact based arguments for you to face were you to
find your self sitting across from them --
at the pub where you gather your information --
yours
roger whittaker
we shall see what sort of an answer rolls out --
i would doubt the fellow is smart enough to even access the document that
loren hints about ---
really too bad when the not knowing get paid to tell stuff to the really not
knowing ---
i often wondered in my youth what it would take to get a job as a talking
head --
having seen much of them and after meeting several in my life---
i am very greatful i did not go that way
happily owning 89 diesel california package vanagon
yours
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca
> wrote:
> 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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