>On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > >> OK, let me rephrase it... a modern rear-engined van with a >> watercooled boxer sourced from Subaru or Porsche. There, that does it! > >There you go. Then make a *real* New Beetle, with the engine in the right >end. Hey, great idea! I agree wholeheartedly. AND make sure it really LOOKS like a Beetle... in the same spirit as the watercoooled Porsche 911! > I couldn't take driving one of those as they're currently designed. Nah. Every Golf from the Golf 2 onward has baan an utter ill-handling dog. And the New Beetle is a dog in tortoise's clothing. >The dash is the size of an aircraft carrier deck and I'm so far back from >the windshield I feel like I have tunnel vision. True. But the Toyota Estima (Previa, Tarago) is even worse... the narrow-body and wide-body versions have totally different dashes, but both arre huge stretches of untextured plastic, looking like a boat deck or something. But I manage to live with that... but that's perhaps because the vehicle is anything BUT a dog. C'mon VW, get your head out of yor ass and design some decent vehicles... ones which look good, are practical, HANDLE... and are reliable!!! -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand 64 (3) 473-8863 <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Fossil preparator Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut -------------------------------------- Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top posting frowned upon? |
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