Date:         Thu, 22 Jun 1995 09:21:19 MST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Mike White" <MIKE.WHITE@law.utah.edu>
Subject:      Re: Crazy Winnebago/Eurovan Motorhome.

>  Someone who drives a '73 bus thinks something ELSE is underpowered?  has 
> little interior space?  I checked one out.  I'm probably gonna buy one in 
> a year or so.  Okay so I might wait until the V6 engine is in it.  BUT 
> according to a guy who works at a VW dealer in Penn.  the Rialta IS NOT 
> stock VW.  THe VW dealers can't work on them because Winnebago fiddles 
> with them a bunch.  They even supposedly have a turbo version.  As happy 
> as I am with the Eurovan and it PLENTY powerful engine I'm not too 
> worried about the power.  The EV power is pretty good at the low end but 
> for a vehicle its size it is almost AMAZING at the high end - its the 
> transmission not the engine that could lead one to think there is a lack 
> of power.

I wouldn't even consider a motorhome with the EuroVan engine unless 
they squoze a VR6 in there.  110 hp (or whatever the EV has) is not 
near enough to drive a motorhome in the mountains!  (Speaking from a 
Rocky Mountain dwellers point of view. <grin>)

Maybe the Turbo version has big four foot "T-U-R-B-O" Graphics down 
the side!?  :)  Turbo motorhome...  sounds almost as silly as Turbo 
bus! 




- Mike White 

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