Date:         Thu, 25 Dec 2003 00:56:49 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: (NVC) But my comments on the concept Microbus...
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>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!!!
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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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