Date:         Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:06:54 -0800
Reply-To:     Michael Stieber <mrstieber@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Stieber <mrstieber@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: What will you all be driving 15 years from now
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The Sprinter does have some serious room AND a very
fine diesel engine that should be good for half a
million km.  Fifteen years from now, I'd hope to be
burning biodiesel as a matter of course.  Imported
petroleum is so, 20th century.

--- DB <db@HOME-WORK.COM> wrote:
> Toyota All Wheel Drive Sienna van with custom
> interior.
> Gee, doesn't sound like much fun...
> -Dan B
>
> At 11:23 PM -0500 12/11/03, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
> >here's a new fryday thread to get your mind off
> poptops..
> >
> >Now that the Eurovan is oficially canned from the
> US market, what will you
> >all be driving 15 years from now?  As much as i
> like to think my vanagon will
> >still be alive by then, im sure life changes, and
> time, wear & elements will
> >have taken its toll (or someone will have probably
> totalled it by then)  so i
> >look to the future...
> >
> >I, for one would not drive one of those new
> microbus minivans (those things
> >are supposed to be no bigger than a Nissan
> Quest...i might as well
> >buy a Nissan
> >Quest, thell be cheaper)..   What else is as big as
> the current vw van?
> >nothing really..  didnt GMC can the safari/astro
> too?  that was the only
> >competition the EV had..
> >anyway.. i digress.. maybe the daimler-chrysler
> Sprinters will be cheap
> >enough to own by then..
> >
> >so what about you?
> >
> >
> >chris


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