rear collision?
Dunno. My guess would be that the rear crumple zone wouldn’t be a place that you’d want to spend much time in, facing forwards or backwards. If Volvo is selling a 3rd seat as an 855 option, then they will have crash tested it to cover their assets liabilitywise. Why don’t your friends simply demand that their salesdroid get Volvo to fax to them (not to their salesdroid) the relevent portions of the factory’s tech notes covering the collision impact studies that were done during the vehicles design/acceptence testing. If Volvo sez that they are unable to do this, then your friends can say that they are unable to buy that $30K car. Once they have the crash data, then they can make an informed decision. /\ Lawrence Buja Climate and Global Dynamics Division \_][ southern@ncar.ucar.
