by "McMike" (mcmike)
Published 04/26/2017 at 10:00
by "McMike" (mcmike)
Published 04/26/2017 at 10:00
Tags: vanagon
STARS: 8
V A N A G O N S L A S H O V E R S T E E R
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Two weeks ago
Will
paid me a visit and sampled the slowest car he has ever driven.
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
04/25/2017 at 22:06, STARS: 1
I am also disappointed with Noah
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
04/25/2017 at 22:40, STARS: 2
It was weird reading your name as Mike. I kept thinking, “He left off the Mc, what the shit?”
"duurtlang" (duurtlang)
04/26/2017 at 11:18, STARS: 0
Why is it described as a minivan? A Transporter is a van. A work van, sometimes converted to passenger or camper duty. Like a Ford E-series.
"Scary__goongala!" (corymagee)
04/26/2017 at 11:22, STARS: 0
That grass in the background looks like it needs to be mowed.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/26/2017 at 11:23, STARS: 1
If you leave a trail behind you when offroad, is that trail a Vanagon’s Wake?
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
04/26/2017 at 11:25, STARS: 0
Am I having flashbacks? Is this the new Blackbird?
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041
"unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)" (unclevanos)
04/26/2017 at 11:34, STARS: 1
Mike, who is known for making silly F1 memes being internet MVP.
If Will doesn’t change that to MVP or national treasure, then I’m canceling my autotrader . com /understeer memebership
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/26/2017 at 11:38, STARS: 0
While that’s true in a broadly European sense, it was the successor to a smallish van, has a limited engine output, construction, and towing capacity akin to the expectations of a minivan in the US market, and generally fits closer to an “extended minivan” a la the Grand Caravan than typical US expectations for a full-size. Further, its role here in the US was focused on the passenger role to the extent I’m not sure the cargo version was offered.
Using ‘90 models for comparison, a Vanagon is a few inches longer than a base Caravan, significantly shorter than a Grand Caravan (still usually described as a “minivan”, mind), and slightly shorter than the shortest E-series available, being completely dwarfed by the longer ones. Width was 2" wider than the Caravan models, 4" narrower than the Econoline. A Type 2 is much narrower still.
In short, describing it as a minivan in the US milieu is not particularly wrong.
"duurtlang" (duurtlang)
04/26/2017 at 11:45, STARS: 0
From a size perspective in the US market you’re probably right. However, a minivan is a car designed as a people carrier. Example: Dodge Caravan. A van is a work vehicle, a truck if you will, initially designed for work. My point is that the VW is the latter, not the former.
I might be nitpicking here.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/26/2017 at 11:50, STARS: 0
Platform mixes make things a muddle, certainly, particularly in VWs case, having made the first of the line with an altered
car
driveline. The plunking-down of a passenger body on an F-series frame to replace an economy compact/midsize car platform small van in the case of the Econoline was certainly more obvious a fit to your rubric.
"McMike" (mcmike)
04/26/2017 at 12:15, STARS: 0
Has someone else posted it?
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
04/26/2017 at 12:35, STARS: 0
I thought you posted some time ago and reset the posting time to re-post it today.
"McMike" (mcmike)
04/26/2017 at 12:48, STARS: 0
Oh, yeah. I reposted it for the daytime oppos.
"4kc" (4kc)
04/26/2017 at 13:39, STARS: 1
“wasn’t designed with safety in mind”
well it clearly is safer than one of it’s safest contemporaries...
"McMike" (mcmike)
04/26/2017 at 14:16, STARS: 1
I know. Everyone assumes that since there is no hood. The same way everyone assumes I smoke weed.. it comes with the territory.
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