That's Hiaces, no apostrophe. >But as so often with company cars nobody bothered to put any real attention >to their rustproofing and since Toyota left it to the customer to put that >stuff on, many of them has rapidly rusted away on the Swedish salted roads >which is a shame since the drivetrain was almost bulletproof. >It´s too bad it doesn´t fit in the Vanagon since there was a really nice 4x4 >diesel sold :-) They don't generally rust here, fortunately. But ours are all Japanese-assembled. Of course our roads are unsalted, but a large proportion of them come used from Japan, where they DO salt roads. Some of the previous generation of Hiaces (LH60-series, the 3rd generation) do have rust problems. My previous 4WD diesel LH66 had rust, but it had been used by a scuba backpacker's hostel, and not only carried dripping salty divers & gear, but ran along wet beaches. As to Europe, the BIG van disease seems to have displaced normal large domestic vans there. The Frod Transit, Fiat & Renault are all very large, comparable to the LT/Sprinter clone. The only normal-sized vans I know of from there are the Mercedes Vito and VW T5, and the Vito is really a wagon, with its low roof. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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