VW Bus Crash Test!!!

[silversleeper]

Holy Hell I feel sorry for Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of the gang if they ever wreck!!!

LINK!

[backtrail69]

Holy shit.. I wonder how fast that is... My dad owned a 1970 VW bus from 1972 till 2000... he sold it because it was just straight up WORN out and didn't want to deal with it anymore. He got a 91 civic dx sedan.

[asubimmer]

goodness thats a lot worse than I thought it would be!

[Huff]

I was thinking about getting one of those for a parts truck... Was

[Charlie]

I think the impact speed for that test is faster than a Vanagon could actually obtain.

-Charlie

[hugh jass]

When your legs are part of the front crash structure of a vehicle, that vehicle should be avoided. My wife has a friend who is completely disabled now because he got in an accident in one of those deathtraps.

[silversleeper]

When your legs are part of the front crash structure of a vehicle, that vehicle should be avoided.

driving one of those at any decent speed could be compared to strapping yourself to the front of a Ride-On bus

[xLibelle]

holy crap!
this is the first thing that came to my mind: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gVYxlGJ64Xc

[sumyungguy]

:shock:

[ptownTSI]

an unloaded van would not suffer nearly that same fate. I was hit by a mid 70's vw bus in my jeep broad sided, they had the tire on the front of theirs too. they were probably going 25 when they hit me after slowing from 35 or so. they ran the red light, nobody got hurt.

[Jon325i]

I think the impact speed for that test is faster than a Vanagon could actually obtain.

-Charlie

It was downhill.......with a tail wind too.

Jon

[amdspitfire]

damn, my grandpa died in an accident and was driving one of these...

never got to meet him, left my dad with out a father at 16

[Ben Carufel]

damn, my grandpa died in an accident and was driving one of these...

never got to meet him, left my dad with out a father at 16

Shit, I wonder if that isn't him driving the one in the crash test video?

I kid, I kid.

[JGood]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUvL0JLQhqE

[rodrigo]

i think that if VW put all of the thought and engineering into safety on their earlier vehicles, they would probably have cost almost double the amount that they did back in the day.
can anyone compare the price of a Volvo of the same era VW a similarly classed VW?

Nonetheless, its an interesting video, and I do agree that the speed of the test may have been a bit faster than what the car/truck/van was intended to attain.