Oh great. They are going to try and prove that the VX, (SINCE YOU KNOW ITS BUILT ON THE DANGEROUS TROOPER CHASSIS) is unstable and prone to flipping.


I haaaaate lawyers sometimes.

I went over to Jerry Lemond's place to pickup a new set of OEM brake pads. He was a trainer for mechanics for Isuzu for 21 years. He now has a hookup to salvage parts off totalled Zu's and then crush them. He said one day a totalled VX came to him. He said it had been rolled, but only the rear view mirrors and the passenger side door had been crushed in. The frame was fine he said, but since the insurance company had salvage titled it, he had to crush it.

He explained to me how he goes about crushing these things. Basically he takes one of those huge dumpster things, lifts it up with a forklift above the car, and lets it drop. He says that it takes about 1 or 2 smacks to flatten your average VW or passenger car, 2 for a rodeo and some troopers.

He said that the first time they dropped the forklift on the vx, it made the side glass shatter, but it started bending the forklift at the right angle of the forks. After the second smack it hadn't even crushed in the roof yet but most of the glass had shattered out of it.

He said it took 4 full smacks JUST to get the roof caved in. He said that that was enough, and they couldn't crush it any further.

The kicker is, he's got pictures to prove his story.