Bongo Fury

Found this site, quite interesting and reassuring in a way, although the test is for a tin top not an AFT.

http://www.nasva.go.jp/mamoru/english/2000/e00f065.html

Thanks for that Vanmanerik. It is reassuring to know my Tin-top is not too tinny and relatively safe for transporting my family. Nice one

now where's that halfwit who was running all the scare stories earlier on in the year on the site....

He was a plank wasnt he

One thing about the test report. It seemed very brief (or did I miss something). I'd have liked more detail. Also, I didnt check but what is the 'pedrigree' of this test house?

How can you all say such nasty things about our beloved javednazeer? It is well known that the village idiot is always popular

I hate to be pedantic & perhaps it`s just me,
but why is it the only one in its class not to show a side impact collision

I found the crash test report site three and a half years ago and indeed there was at that time some discussion on the forum.

Basically the test centre is the Japanese equivalent of the EU/UK testing ones.

I remember there was a link to pages of further information, but my Japanese was (and still is) not quite up to understanding it.

Ah so. Shame there isnt more - would be interesting reading

It was nice to read this report, I found one about three and a half years ago, when I bought my bongo which gave it a poor rating, almost on a par with the old Austin J4 vans, that was a foreign site too, it is brill to know that all the family are safe in a whump, Bongo reigns supreme. Very happy motoring now.

I wonder if the test including the old Austin vans was testing the original Bongo van from the early 1970s, or one of the 1980s models? The original Bongo was rear engined -- which generally isn't too good in a frontal crash. There is some Bongo history information on Wikipedia.