Hello Guys,
Times up ! just have no time for all =
these phobia
for copyrights and patents epecially with stuff that is already several =
years
old.
If MDS wants to protect their =
Intellectual
property, it is their right.
After all, things vanagon only has =
appeal to us, a
limited bunch of crazy Vanagon enthusiasts.. I suppose we like to =
be
different from the rest of the =
conformist
society, just like the flower children of the '60s..
I surveyed all those new SUVs and =
Minivans that are
being touted with their high price tags of 40K,50K . None of them come =
close to
the common sense functionability and =
the
comfortable ride of the Vanagon for the money invested... Except for the =
infamous wasserboxer engine which I think VW should have been sued for their incompetant engineeiring , =
it is still
to me the ideal design for a peoples's wagon.
With the kinds of improvements =
experimented by so
many Listers here on the net we should be able to achieve this goal of
the
perfect van for daily use.
If the fifth gear can have an =
overdrive ratio
of 4.86 or better this would be ideal.
Can any one confirm whether the Porsch =
G50 has this
value. ?
Next we need to beef up the engine with =
an Audi
inline like what is being done in South Africa.
Anyone has any contacts in South Africa =
? Are there
any complications in importing this engine into the US ?
I was down in Sao Paulo, Brazil =
recently and
all you see are white aircooled breadloafers all over.. They only come
in
one color ( white) from what I
notice..
I was so tempted to bring one =
back to the
US but i know i cannot due to the emission laws. They are still being
manufactured there and only cost about =
US$10000
brand new.
VW has so much opportunities but =
instead they come
up with a Transporter 4 that literally has few takers in the =
US.
Sometimes I cannot understand the minds =
of their
marketing strategists. They need to look to people like us rather than
the
army of MBAs they hire every year that =
supposely
can forecast what people want.
The breadloafer was a concept design =
sketched by
one of the original VW dealer on a napkin and became an overnight =
success
in the sixties and is still being =
manufactured
today ! Anyone remember his name ? I it just slip my mind. Carl
????
Terry