... and you thought GM had some bad crash test results?

[the_yellow_dart]

It's amazing how far all cars have come since the '80s.

[Hollingsworth]

At least the cargo is safe and sound. That's what made these models so appealing to businesses.

[Intrepidation]

That's one hell of a crumple zone...the entire cab just disappears! o_O

[Delta Force79]

wow....RIP

[Intrepidation]

I get it...I's a magic trick! Now you see the cab now you don't!

[plane]

What a great clip.

That is amazing.

Fold and Stow Cab - a VW design first.

[Intrepidation]

What a great clip.

That is amazing.

Fold and Stow Cab - a VW design first.

:rotflmao:

Makes parking in tight spaces a breeze...except only 2 wheels will actually be usable.

[76ChevyTrucker]

Damn, just damn.

[Sixty8panther]

It's amazing how far all cars have come since the '80s.

But then again the test of the VW Beetle (classic) versus a "modern" Golf

proves just how futile progress is at times.

=

In any case the VW microbus was an ancient & unsafe design from the

get-go in the 1960s.... the closest thing to it would be a Toyota

Wunderwagon....

[aaaantoine]

In sad news today, six people were killed when a VW Bus crashed into a concrete wall. The only survivors were the Mexican stowaways beneath the cargo canopy.

[the_yellow_dart]

But then again the test of the VW Beetle (classic) versus a "modern" Golf

proves just how futile progress is at times.

=

In any case the VW microbus was an ancient & unsafe design from the

get-go in the 1960s.... the closest thing to it would be a Toyota

Wunderwagon....

Yes, it doesn't seem that much (if any) progress was made from the 50s - 80s. It's only since the 80s and only really since the mid 90s that we've made real progress.

[Robert Hall]

Wild...no structural integrity at all..that video must have inspired GM with to make the Astro and U-vans so collapsible.

[A Horse With No Name]

Wild...no structural integrity at all..that video must have inspired GM with to make the Astro and U-vans so collapsible.

Actually the Astro isn't that bad of a design. I've seen several badly wrecked ones in salvage yards and they ain't anywhere in the same leauge as that VW.

Chris

[daves87rs]

Wild...no structural integrity at all..that video must have inspired GM with to make the Astro and U-vans so collapsible.

U-vans, yes.

Astros, no.

My buddy' old 91 was hit by an f-250, then a s-10, and he walked away from the accident....

They hold up well, with the only downside being if they are t-boned on the sliding door.....

And I have seen some mangled Astros too...