84GL (auto) pretty solid... pretty quick good power... BIG fan! Chad~ On Nov 19, 2007 9:41 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote: > RE: Best Year > As with most of the other answers you will get my experience is anecdotal, > based only on my experience. I've put about the same time/miles on two > Westfalias, an '85 and a '90. The '90 has been, for me, a great improvement > over the '85. A little more power, much more relaiable, and a much better > driving vehicle. I'll qualify my answer by adding that if I had known as > much about the Vanagon when owning the '85 as I do now with the '90 I might > have had the '85 driving as nice as the '90. But the engine, brake, and > suspension changes in '86 and on were improvements. If I had to replace the > '90 I'd only look for an '87 on. > |
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