The VW South African site has some pictures of a crash test of the current
version of Vanagon.

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rico Sapolich" <JKrevnov@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: Stud vs bolt / Merits of Macho Bumpers

> In a message dated 3/17/01 10:17:43 PM, radish150@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << I saw one of these vanagons that
> had been in a terrible head on collision. Let's just say I want as much
> between
> me and them as possible. >>
>
> Mark,
>
> I have seen several Vanagons which were hit in the front and I was always
> surprised to see how little intrusion into the cockpit there was.  Of
course
> this is no crash test, but they seemed to fair quite well.  If you look at
> the front stucture of a Vanagon, it appears to be formed from a bunch of
box
> sections.  I guess a Vanagon is like a motorcycle in that if you dwell on
the
> possibilities too much, you will talk yourself out of operating one.
>
> Rich
>