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Date:         Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:10:46 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: gas guzzlers(was SUV bashing)
Comments: To: Rogerspace2@AOL.COM
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Hello SUV Bashers-

While you and I certainly have some things against SUV's, we certainly aren't getting better gas mileage than them in our Vanagons.

The average Vanagon only gets about 17-19 mpg .Mine has got 24 mpg before only when driving non-stop under 55 mph.

The top 5 SUV's , the top being the Toyota RAV 4-, get between 23-31 mpg. The Rav-4 gets 27-31.

So clearly us Vanagon drivers are the gas guzzlers. Makes you wonder why a anarchist group hasn't targeted us.

Now the older SUV's made while the Vanagon was imported to North America may get worse mpg.I haven't checked.

The A-3 VR6 Golf gets 27 city/31 hwy(172 hp,5 speed ).I don't know what the newest Golf gets.

We could bash that I suppose-but, it's a VW. We love VW's, don't we?

Maybe I should'nt have brought this up. Maybe they know already. Maybe that could explain why so many Vanagons burn.

Robert k 1982 Westfalia

Tip of the day: get a third brake light- I see a lot of rear -ended Vanagons

>From: Roger Reynolds <Rogerspace2@AOL.COM> >Reply-To: Rogerspace2@AOL.COM >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: SUV bashing has gotten out of hand (NVC) >Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:34:57 EST > >I just got this from the AOL home page, I hope the FBI has not been >monitoring the Vanagon List lately ;) > > >" PITTSBURGH (Jan. 4) - In the latest in a string of vandalism carried out >in >the name of the Earth Liberation Front, members of the radical >environmental >group are claiming responsibility for a fire at a Pennsylvania auto >dealership. > >A posting on the group's Web site said the ``attack'' targeted SUVs in a >fight ``to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural >environment.'' > >Jugs of gasoline were set ablaze under three vehicles, engulfing them and a >nearby car in flames Wednesday at a dealership in Girard, about 110 miles >north of Pittsburgh, FBI Special Agent Bob Rudge said. Three other vehicles >also had jugs of gasoline set under them but failed to ignite. > >``I have no reason to doubt that it's an individual who committed the acts >on >behalf of the Earth Liberation Front,'' Rudge said."

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