About two years ago the front of Fun Bus got into a fight with a 2001
Honda Civic. The Civic had to be dragged away since the rear wheels could
not turn with the bumper and rear fenders pushed into them. The rear glass
shattered and landed in the rear seat as the trunk lid went through it. I
am still driving the Fun Bus. I guess it helped that the Fun Bus had the
tow brackets for pulling it behind the motor home but somehow it put up a
good fight only needing a lower grill, the turn signal lights, and the
small dent is still there. I hate to think what a real vehicle could have
done to that Civic. I think I'll spend another $15/week to drive my Benz
to work.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Benny boy
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:51 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)

Yes my friend, what's wrong with the US (and Canada soon), well, you
elected
a oil oriented president, a scary one if i may add... i also watch the
movie
about the EV-1, how GM killed (or Bush gov.) is own genious project.

If you need a small compact car, come here in Montreal, that is all we
have
in our street. TDI, Civic Hybrid, Mercedes Smart, Prius, Yaris... and so
on.

When i travel in North America, city like Houston as an example, i'm amaze
of how big are the vehicle????

Think Big, Big is beautiful, big is better...

I can not believe what you just wrote about that 6000$ tax rebate, this is
simply madness.

I had an argument with a Type2 list member last year, of course... in a
case
of an accident, he was telling me that his BIG Suv would detroy my Civic,
and he and his family would be safe and me dead... but a Hummer would
destroy his SUV, so he was thinking of buying a bigger one (that the short
version of that story), i was ask to stop that thread of leave the list, i
left the list.

All empire go down one day.

Ben