>If you have such fears and they bother you so much, why not just buy a >chevy or ford conversion van with a reliable V8? > I suspect that is not the point. If I wanted to drive a cheby or ferd, I would. I like the driving experience of the Vanagon. Like how it handles, like how it feels. But you will never hear me boasting of the engineering prowness coming out of Wolfsburg. DM methode be damned. The reliability of my Toyota truck is 1000 times better than the Vanagon. Let's talk engineering. Let's talk QA. Let's talk which one I really feel is better to be hauling my family around in. Toyota, hands down. But I cannot afford a Forunner and it still doesn't have the class that driving a vanagon has. I can't fit two kids in the front seat of a standard Toyota PU. So... I drive the Toyota PU when I need to be somewhere and I drive the VW when I want an adventure (or need to pick up both of my daughters). tim (I am not a doktor, nor do I play one on the internet) o'brien
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