These vans still have the in-vogue fatal flaw... gross space-inefficiency. A front-engined van cannot come close to that of a rear-engined (VW T1-T3) or underfloor-engined van (mainstream Japanese). And for that reason alone I wouldn't touch one. Buy a front-engined van (either RWD or FWD) of similar external length to the Toyotas etc or old VWs, and you have a meter less cargo-bay length. Buy an LWB one with similar interior space to the Toyota or older VW... and the vehicle is a meter longer... great for parking and maneuvering! Proof that VW doesn't know what it's doing. It has really lost the plot. Rubbish vans which (with all of the other Eurotrash vans eg Fiat, Renbault,the Ford Tran*hit/Mercedes Sprinter twin and the Astro-style Mercedes "van") cannot compete in a market where the Japanese vans are available. Mutant spece-free adynamic Golfs (New Beetle) which sold great guns initially, but which now VW can't shovel off the showroom floors (except perhaps in the US). C'mon, VW... Porsche can still do it, why can't you? -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand 64 (3) 473-8863 <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Fossil preparator Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut |
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