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Subject:Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth?
From:Allan Streib
Date:Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:01:01 -0500

joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET> writes:

> no truth ... just opinions by uninformed biased idiots.
> my insurance company, usaa, gives me a safe-vehicle discount on my
> vanagons ... because the chances of serious injury is LESS than in
> comparable vehicles. so i kinda don't see how it (or the previous
> generations, which are pretty much the same design) could be 'deadly'.

Well the Vanagon WAS completely re-engineered and crash tested.  It's
basic cab-over design is like the previous "bus", but the structure is
not the same at all.  At least, that's my understanding.

Allan
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1991 Vanagon GL