Your sarcasm eludes my cerebral boundaries. If this were the future I’d feel obliged to send you this carrot via transport beam:
Your sarcasm eludes my cerebral boundaries. If this were the future I’d feel obliged to send you this carrot via transport beam:
That doesn’t change the fact that the car was really an evolutionary dead end, does it? The VW Type 1 was ubiquitous, but from a technological perspective it too was an evolutionary dead end (at least for people’s cars) and already outdated when the first commercially available models rolled off the production line.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue to say it as long as I can speak (or write).
The correct answer is obviously Audi V8, the only Group A car to win two back to back DTM driver’s championships.
Not if we’re going by driver’s championships. Or Manufacturer championships for that matter. The first five years were dominated by BMW and the final five by Mercedes.
You do know that the Euro Chevette was the same as the US one apart from the Dropsnoot and lack of catalytic converter. Same with the Escort. A fast version does not magically make a better range. I agree on the Granny, as that was a genuinely great car with a slightly dodgy rep and ruined when the Scorpio came about.
I always approve of NSU love, my grandfather used to own a Prinz 1000 way back. Very forward thinking company, not just because of the rotaries.
You know, Westfalia also makes the Marco Polo on the Mercedes Vito platform, which americans do actually get (not sure about the Westfalia versions). It’s the exact same thing but without the Volkswagen street cred.
I like this question because it is so broad. My Dad owns a Mercedes Benz Viano 3.0 CDI similar to this one. Now 224hp and an Automatic in a 2.2 metric ton vehicle doesn’t sound like a lot, but this is a mid-sized van with rear wheel drive, not a lot of weight over those wheels and about 370lb-ft of torque. Add it all…
Europaea gets a manual on the base diesel V90, so the V60 does as well.
I mean they’ve been making this generation since ‘98....
A Friend has one. They’re fine. No worse than an unladen Van, and way better than any rear-engined Smart.
No. It’s similar in concept and execution but the L314 came out in the middle of the BMW ownership and development began even before BMW came on board. It is however very distantly related to the 1st-gen CR-V, if only by association of the Rover-Honda partnership. They don’t share any parts whatsoever.
Is it though. Is an original 1950s Jeep CJ3 really a better car in every way than a 1990s Mahindra CJ3 with an XD3 Peugeot Diesel or a 1970s Mitsubishi CJ3 with a 4G53? On paper, save for the engines and perhaps transmissions, they’re all identical as they are built from the same blueprints.
Having driven an FH13 I can say get your Volvo with the I-Shift. Those things haul. I can’t tell about reliability because even though I work as a truck mechanic at an independent garage, we almost never get Volvos and the closely related Renaults in our shop.
*Literally everything* Manufacturer is a better description.
So the next time you’re in Germany, watch out, because you might get pulled over by a luxury station wagon.
Yeah the V6 TDI is still the best option. Not actually that much slower to 60 than the V10 (They actually sold them with manual transmissions) and as economical as the 2.5L I5 TDI. But just as terrible to live with.