Local Man Drives Area Van.  

Kinja'd!!! "McMike" (mcmike)
04/26/2017 at 10:00 • Filed to: vanagon

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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 !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! paid me a visit and sampled the slowest car he has ever driven.


DISCUSSION (15)


Kinja'd!!! For Sweden > McMike
04/25/2017 at 22:06

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I am also disappointed with Noah


Kinja'd!!! shop-teacher > McMike
04/25/2017 at 22:40

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It was weird reading your name as Mike. I kept thinking, “He left off the Mc, what the shit?”


Kinja'd!!! duurtlang > McMike
04/26/2017 at 11:18

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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.


Kinja'd!!! Scary__goongala! > McMike
04/26/2017 at 11:22

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That grass in the background looks like it needs to be mowed.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > McMike
04/26/2017 at 11:23

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If you leave a trail behind you when offroad, is that trail a Vanagon’s Wake?


Kinja'd!!! TheRealBicycleBuck > McMike
04/26/2017 at 11:25

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Am I having flashbacks? Is this the new Blackbird?

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Kinja'd!!! unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > McMike
04/26/2017 at 11:34

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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


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > duurtlang
04/26/2017 at 11:38

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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.


Kinja'd!!! duurtlang > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/26/2017 at 11:45

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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.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > duurtlang
04/26/2017 at 11:50

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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.


Kinja'd!!! McMike > TheRealBicycleBuck
04/26/2017 at 12:15

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Has someone else posted it?


Kinja'd!!! TheRealBicycleBuck > McMike
04/26/2017 at 12:35

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I thought you posted some time ago and reset the posting time to re-post it today.


Kinja'd!!! McMike > TheRealBicycleBuck
04/26/2017 at 12:48

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Oh, yeah. I reposted it for the daytime oppos.


Kinja'd!!! 4kc > McMike
04/26/2017 at 13:39

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“wasn’t designed with safety in mind”

well it clearly is safer than one of it’s safest contemporaries...

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Kinja'd!!! McMike > 4kc
04/26/2017 at 14:16

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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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