"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
01/26/2016 at 04:38 • Filed to: None
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"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
01/26/2016 at 04:38 • Filed to: None | 2
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I only had driven one for a couple of kilometers before and it was the first time for me to really spend time with one. This one is from 1972 with a 1600cc engine.
I can’t really say I liked it, but I didn’t disliked it either. It’s not a bad car, it’s jut that, unlike a Mini for exemple, it’s not very “exciting” to drive. It’s a fine daily driveable car, just not that fun overall... If I lack inspiration for articles, I might steal it back and do a full Oppo Review of it later... But as you can see, just not as great as I had hoped and spending the day with one just didn’t provide me with a hindsight as to why so many people absolutely love this car...
yitznewton
> Flavien Vidal
01/26/2016 at 06:15 |
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I test-drove a 1973? Super Beetle in college. It was a cool experience: engaging in a mechanical sense, but not the sport-of-driving sense that we probably think of here.
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Flavien Vidal
> yitznewton
01/26/2016 at 07:26 |
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It didn’t really have to be “sporty”, but I was just expecting something a bit nimbler I guess :)
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yitznewton
> Flavien Vidal
01/26/2016 at 08:58 |
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Yeah, I don’t necessarily mean sporty, but responsive and engaging to drive in e.g. a Mazda 3 or VW Golf way.
dietryng
> Flavien Vidal
01/26/2016 at 12:18 |
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if it didnt leave you on the side of the road, you missed out on the experience. vws are downright reliable. mostly.
until you get to make your own fuses out of gum wrappers, or use the speaker wires to bypass the hot wire to the coil after it caught fire against the body.or use your shoestrings for a fan belt, or use both your shoestrings tied together to operate the throttle because the cable snapped, its hard to appreciate the simplicity.
they are like roaches. you CAN kill them, but you have to REALLY try.
Berang
> Flavien Vidal
01/26/2016 at 21:26 |
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Is that a Japanese market beetle?
banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> Flavien Vidal
01/26/2016 at 21:31 |
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How much.
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Flavien Vidal
> Berang
01/26/2016 at 21:33 |
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Yes it is :)
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Flavien Vidal
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
01/26/2016 at 21:35 |
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Cheap and maybe mine :)
The Ur-Quattro is kind of a barn find actually... It has a virtually new engine, with 17000km on the clock...
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Berang
> Flavien Vidal
01/26/2016 at 21:41 |
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Interesting. U.S. market never got the bumper blinkers because they came out around the same time we got 5mph bumpers, but we sometimes see them on Mexican beetles that have migrated north.
Funny thing about beetles vs. handling, the super beetles with the rack and pinion steering are pretty nice handling cars (relatively speaking - for the era) but most VW fans hate them because they “look wrong”.
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banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> Flavien Vidal
01/27/2016 at 11:33 |
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I should be happy for you but my inner Audi enthusiast is having an anxiety attack and has reached the bargaining stage like “I wonder if they’d take a running 1G DSM on trade. They don’t have DSM’s in Japan. I bet they’d take it...”
Freshened up that’s probably a $40k+ car in America, up from like $18k maybe a decade ago
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Flavien Vidal
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
01/27/2016 at 20:23 |
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haha, no DSM, thank you :)
Had you oferred a very mint Lotus Europa, we might have been looking into it, but no DSM :)