This. It’s the unpredictability that is dangerous.

The extra poverty (and RHD, and panels) are what makes it special. What I usually see with VW fanatics is that they buy something rare like this, and then they customize the H out of it and make it sort of worthless in the process.

My dad had a dark green 1600TL briefly in the early 1970s. It was the only car he ever owned that he disliked so much that he wouldn’t talk about it (and he had to replace the entire engine twice in his 2-year ownership of a DKW F102). Never owned a Volkswagen again, either.

I take pictures of cars and upload them to Wikipedia, and I generally run the chassis numbers of most cars I photograph - to check years and so on. The number of cars exhibited that have shady provenance is staggering, but what is also staggering is just how little effort it takes to find out. Half an hour with the…

COTD!

I was just sitting here thinking that it’s probably the length that’s the actual issue, as tight turns in tunnels means that very long cars won’t clear the walls. But I agree, where is the humor in that?

Since when do enthusiasts like commuting by car? I love cars more than most functional people, and I am overjoyed to be able to take the train to work and have two treasured machines I can futz around with and enjoy in better ways than being stuck in gridlock.

I like it! if it was three feet shorter and a station wagon I would consider buying a lightly used one in 2028.

Still a VW, still an FWD layout with 4WD added. An impressive vehicle, no doubt, fast and competent and so on, but completely lacking the kind of class, presence, and occasion offered by Rolls-Royce or a pre-Arnage Bentley.

I agree 100%. This is an iconic Volkswagen engine, but largely meaningless as far as Bentley is concerned. 6.75 is a legend (although a RR unit to be fair), whereas the W12 is merely a marriage of convenience.

The guy offering it appears to be named Micheal Modecki (that used to spelled Michael, but I guess that with illiteracy taking over the spelling will be changed soon), so maybe he should sell it to himself. Or perhaps it is a tax dodge, whereby he can have the MM plate on his car while reducing his taxable income.

Not sure. Marilyn Monroe? Mickey Mouse? Mmmmm?

They should have probably written “across US, China, and Europe”

The plexiglass nosecone is for the navigator; also allowed for easier conversion to military transport.

Uh, no, you eff up and others pay up. At most you might get a stern look from your captain.

Sweden is a country of ten million people, as per the most recent data I have (2017) they averaged 5.9 million per year in costs from cops crashing into things. So that would be less than a tenth the damages for a country with a larger population and 700 times the area to patrol.

That’s because if you get hit by a cop, the City will almost always find a way to weasel out of paying for the damages. We have no clue how much was paid for by insurance companies and citizens.

Au contraire! What I think they ought to do is to revive Plymouth, De Soto, Fargo, Sunbeam, Panhard, Hillman, Talbot, Simca, Humber, Barreiros, Singer, Karrier, and so on. Don’t they also own the rights to the entire AMC portfolio of brands? The options are endless.

I am not a gamer, but this sounds grand.

I have never driven in Toronto, but in NYC the city has an extremely liberal idea of what constitutes near enough a school to issue speeding camera tickets. Naturally they do NOT place the cameras to maximize protection of kids, but to maximize revenue.