I saw that crash  test a couple of months ago when it was posted on The
Samba.
 It was posted after a series of photos depicting a 45 + 45mph offset
frontal crash between a Westy and a Chrysler minivan. The Westy driver
walked away, the Chrysler people went away in an ambulance.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think the VW was repairable, but it wasn't
flattened either.
See it here:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175672

It cheered me up tremendously!

Jake

On 7/5/06, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> At 03:38 PM 7/5/2006 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote:
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8&search=vw%20bus
>
> Woof!  So there is a crush space after all.  Too bad we're sitting in it.
>
> This certainly shows the limitations of the "hard front"
> philosophy.  Do you know the test conditions?  Instructive to compare
> this with the photos of the Folksam offset-headon test against the Volvo
> wagon.
>
> It's always made me a bit queasy to know that the design philosophy
> in effect was to turn the other vehicle's crush space into a shared
> resource, trying to save my life at the expense of the other
> guy's.  This really brings it home in a wrenching way.
>
> These vehicles -- seriously -- need airbags.  Big ones, facing
> out.  With a thiotimiline trigger.
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"
>

--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
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