>"You can conjecture what a 2-ton front-engine SUV
>>  will do when it
>>  meets a 2-ton Vanagon. One has a 1/2-ton engine in
>>  front of the
>>  passengers. The other has scarce sheet metal. It
>>  doesn't take an
>>  Einstein to figure out the *probable* outcome."
>
>This is not always the case,
>In head-on collisions Subarus are designed so that the
>engine breaks free and travels under the passenger
>compartment instead of landing in the drivers lap like
>big V-8's often do.

Not much in a Vanagon that can "break free". There is only the mass
of the front sheet metal to protect you.

Dave (still likes Vanagons, just knows who's going to win in contest)
--
Dave Carpenter

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May you have twice as much.

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think
we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C.
Clarke