Hello all, > The Vanagon is not designed for high speed driving and lacks the additional > safety features such as airbags and ABS brakes. If you want to make the > weenies mad get a motorcycle. It isnīt designed for speed, but can handle speed very well. I am driving my vanagon with 190km/h+ and I feel quite safe and comfortable. Besides, my european vanagon has ABS brakes! And the kids are more impressed by a Vanagon than anything else :-) Over 150km/h I am more frightened in a little Golf or Polo/Fox or in a beefed up old beetle or on a motorcycle than in a vanagon. > Hard > acceleration is tough on the CV's and your brakes and transmission, > especially the Syncro trans which is not the best built of VW transmissions. Thatīs totally correct, though. > A affordable choice with reasonable power but not enough to shut down the > competion is a inline four like my 95 Golf engine. concerning safety: Frontal Collision Golf versus Vanagon? Iīll take the Vanagon without Airbag! Better than having the inline4 on my lap... Just my 02cents. Raimund |
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