I'm a spanking new owner of a 2000 Ebony Black VX.

Professionally I'm an ecologist. However, I also happen to work for the USDOT - Federal Highway Administration (we can talk about the professional nexus later; suffice it to say that the interaction between deer and vehicles at highway speeds is something I'm working to minimize for the wildlife's peace-of-mind as well as ours - see www.wildlifecrossings.info for more).

A check of our sister-agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( http://www.nhtsa.gov/ ) reveals no specific safety testing for the VX.

It probably will-not come until after the holidaze have passed, but I have the priviledge of working with some of my agency's national experts on rollover and run-off-the-road crash statistics and prevention. I intend to ask them for information on how we can obtain data for the VX, even if it is incomplete for official publication.

Next month, I'll be in Washington at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, where I will have another opportunity to meet some of the nation's leading highway safety experts. As a new owner, myself, I intend to exploit every opportunity to learn what is known about the VX and safety research.

I'll post anything I learn on this thread.