> What I am wondering/needing is some feelings on how individual people > make decisions to compensate for the obvious design comprimises that > some types of vehicles have. For instance, has anyone ever noticed > that a VW bus has a short nose? How do you compensate for this when you > drive? Or do you? When wedrovein our buswhen I was little, I remember my father telling me to pick up my feet if it ever appeared that we were going to be in a front end accident. I have since seen busses that have their noses caved in, it looks likethey hold up pretty well structurally. Erik Burtis 71westy
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