A car magazine here, in Brazil, is doing a long-term test in a Merc A200, and the result is being a nightmare. Lots of little problems, noises everywhere, very frequent and expensive scheduled maintenances (each 8.000km, or 5000mi). And the "funny" part: in a trip, a little stone broke a headlight, and the cost to…
Just to update your concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_B…
Sealed beam headlamps, doubtless!
And Daewoo Lacetti is the car Chevrolet sells as Cruze...
In fact, no. It was built in a "custom" chassis, built in the named "plasteel" (a steel structure "sandwiched" in fiberglass, but this was a crap! With time, cracks appears in fiberglass and water infiltrate, causing the steel tubes to "rust to dust", and the repair was VERY expensive). Carajas had suspensions from VW…
The correct weight is 1/2 ton (500Kg), not 500lbs.
Oh, my lovely SP2... Yes, I have one. And this photos don´t do the correct justice with the car. In "person" it is much more beautiful than in this pictures. And yes, it´s very slow, but you sit so low, so close to the road, you have the "sensation" of going much faster than real.
Even if not a V8, a good 200hp turbo 4 would be VERY nice...
DConsorti, they never was done over Beetle chassis. At first was on Karmann Ghia chassis (a little different from Beetle) and later on Brasilia´s chassis (wider than Bettle). I already work a lot with them.
The original news says "The driver suffered non-life threatening injuries and the bear walked away". Also says the motorcycle was at 140Kph (87Mph), so VERY, VERY lucky bear.
Maybe driver´s mother in law was into the car...
Soon in some obituary...
I agree. I never heard, see, read or know about a "Fusca" with ABS. I think book´s author made a mistake.