In a message dated 9/3/00 2:38:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aircooledvw77t1@ENGINEER.COM writes: << never be caught dead driving an automatic (unless it wassn't my car). And why oh why did they discontinue the Vanagon? >> because they didnt have half a brain to dump the wbx and put something more reliable back there. and as far as an auto, the auto trans vanagons are less trouble prone than the manual trannies in the 4spd vanagons.. chris |
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