Date:         Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:48:44 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Porsche's SUV
Comments: To: EUROMOG@AOL.COM
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The vehicles they manufacture for the decadent rich are always coming in
or going out.
If I were both decadent and rich I'd definitely get me one after I bought
my new Mooney Airplane.
It would be on the list just after the new ski boat, lake house, boat
lift, dog training, stocking up with groceries.
Guys I've been fast in AA Fuel Funny cars, AA Fuel Dragsters, A Fuel 90"
wheelbase roadsters and you sure don't want to run over 100 miles an hour
unless you're trained to drive fast.
Its like the song goes about Mabelline and the rainwater blowing under
the hood .......... those telephone poles start looking like a picket
fence once you get past 120 mph.
I shucked the fan / alternator belts from a Corvette at 135 mph and ate
the radiator, dragged the power steering pump into the fan and all hell
broke loose in my shorts.
However if you're crazy enough to pay their price you're crazy enough to
try to get that 168 mph out of her.

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:12:30 EDT John Wessels <EUROMOG@AOL.COM> writes:
> In a message dated 10/6/02 9:29:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> DBAKER5@KC.RR.COM writes:
>
> << There's what the world needs -- a 5,000 lb 450 hp ute that runs
> 168 mph.
>  Wonder how many people it's going to kill....
>
>  Dave in KC >>
>
> A lot less than VW Vanagons ever did. I sure wish you people with a
> jealousy
> complex would get off the anti SUV rhetoric. Your Vanagon puts out
> more
> pollution, uses more gas and is far less safe than most SUV's on the
> road. I
> have a Syncro and love it. Yet I don't admonish people who choose a
> vehicle
> to their liking. I agree it's ugly but you have to give Porsche and
> VW credit
> for engineering such a phenomenal vehicle. It is going to set a new
> standard.
> I wish they would loan me one to test drive on the trails of
> Moab.......
>
> Had way too much coffee this morning. I need to go drive my Syncro
> on some
> rough terrain.
>
> John Wessels '87 SyncroMog
> European Motorsport
> Livermore, CA 94551
> http://www.euromog.com
>
>

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