[T3] General questions...Vintage VW-related...

[donrob at yachtsales.com]

There is another reason 2 door cars are going the way of the woolly 
mammoth, and it is insurance related.  You may know that it generally 
costs considerably more to insure a 2-door car than one with 4 doors.  
This is because crash protection in the event of a t-bone type accident 
is much less effective in a two-door car.  A four-door car has greater 
protection for passengers in a t-bone accident.

The point is not the value or cost of the car, it is the millions of 
dollars that are sometimes spent fixing the people who were in the car.

The cheapest car to insure is generally a station wagon, especially if 
it has 4 doors.

In a similar vein, you can no get insurance at all in Ontario for a 12 
to 16-passenger full size van if there are seats at the very rear of the 
vehicle; a few inches from the rear doors.  This is because of the 
horrific injuries to people sitting there in the event of a rear end 
accident.




> 
> 3)  What's the deal with almost all of today's cars, even small  ones,
> having
> Four Doors? Whhat car, except a taxi, needs more than  two?   Is it 
> that
> with
> an older population, back seat riders can't  get in just by pushing the
> front
> seat(s) forward?   And what about  expense of fixing those 3rd and 4th 
> doors
> if hit in an accident?  ...not  to mention expense of electrical 
> doo-dads in
> those unnecessary rear  doors?
> 
> I have a feeling that too many people have gotten caught on the  
> seatbelt
> and done a faceplant to keep the car a 2 door...  yea its  pricier
> to have a 4 door so Im a bit surprised too that there are so  many.
> maybe Ill feel differently with another 10 years on my body.  :-)
> Keith
>