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Subject:Re: crashtest.com results don't look good
From:Mark Dorm
Date:Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:25:58 PDT

I read that the Vanagon here in the US got a score of B or B+ for side
impacts and D for front impacts - and that people tend to break their feet
and/or ankles in accidents but still overall, accidents attributed to
mechanical defects were, I think, under 2%.....

>From: Markus Samuelson <BP@EARTHLING.NET>

>
>I noticed one thing and that is the Folksam column where the vanagon
>scores pretty good, this is actually the column I would tend to trust
>the most since Folksam base their judgement on actual real traffic
>incidents not test environment and so on. So if it scores well in the
>Folksam category I would tend to say that it is a pretty safe car to
>crash in (is there such a thing?).
>
>/Markus Samuelson

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