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Subject:Re: Vanagon crash safety
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:44:46 -0500

What I hate is all that stuff that was in the rear of the van moves up
front to share the front seat with me.

Stan Wilder

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:56:39 -0700 DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM> writes:
> >"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
>
> Whatever you wish for me,
> 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
>

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