My wife taped the new show Alias this last week and we just watched it the
other night.  In part of the show the main character's partner is sitting
in a Vanagon panel van with all his electronic survailence stuff in the
back.  The main character is in trouble, he comes to help.  He rams the bad
guys van broadside, with the vanagon going maybe 40 mph.  The other van got
flipped over on its side and slide a descent ways, the Vanagon just bounced
back a few feet and didn't really look damaged.  Of course this is all at
night and on a tv show but the impact looked pretty real, why pay for
expensive special effects?

Dave K.