As a German speaker, I read through this, and it is clearly an advertisement
for VW.  They enlisted ADAC to back them up (ADAC is similar to AAA in the
US), but there's definitely money changing hands.  While the results do
carry some weight, I'd take it with a grain of salt.
bmc  :)
"Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."

> From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
> Reply-To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:17:53 +1200
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Vanagon crash safety
>
>> I did a little more searching and found a site with crash tests of
>> different flat front vans (Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, and VW).  The
>> test was conducted by Germany's ADAC (the organization that invented the
>> offset frontal impact).  The conclusion was that all the other vans either
>> cause their drivers to be dead or heavily injured, only the driver of the
>> VW would have escaped with only very minor injuries.  I have to apologize
>> for the fact that the site is in German only, but I think that the pictures
>> say it all!
>>
>> http://www.vw-bus-land.de/   go to   VW-Bus Berichte    and then to
>
> The Hiace shown is the old model (1980-1988), as are the Liteace
> Mitsubishi Delica (=L300), Nissan Urvan/Caravan/Homy and Sunny
> Vanette. The Isuzu Fargo (small change to Cargo in Germany) went
> unchanged from say 1980 to present, as has the Mazda Bongo (abeit
> with facelifts).
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
>