I'd perhaps give more credence to the question about dangerously underpowered vehicles if our own vanagons didn't disprove the notion that underpowered = more dangerous. In addition to having surprisingly strong frames and crashworthiness, vanagons had the LOWEST fatality rates of any passenger vans in the US during their years of production and the second lowest fatality rates of any vehicle on the road. Now where the normally aspirated diesel is concerned, I might have to agree to an extent. I drove a Golf years ago with the same engine and it was incredibly underpowered. I can't imagine that motor in a van. You might well get run down by a semi. Dixon |
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