do I see a Star of David on this German car?
Posted on 12/04/2007 9:26:18 PM PST by goldstategop
do I see a Star of David on this German car?
My wife had a new beatle when I met her. Worst POS car I ever saw. Next to it, a Dodge Colt was the USS Enterprise.
VW had seen fit to “innovate” just about everything in the car. Replacing a burnt headlamp was an ordeal. The clock was nowhere anyone would look for it. (Would you believe it was where the front window met the roof?) The ash tray was in the back seat, and it was a good thing neither of us smoked because every time you opened it, you disconnected the headlights. And nothing, but nothing ever worked. TWENTY-EIGHT manufacturing defects.
>> VW is collaborating with Apple so I would not be surprised at all if the computer touch screen was powered by Mac OSX. <<
God help the person who tries to drive around in the equivalent of a one-button mouse.
>> cheap, reliable and fun transportation for the masses. <<
The last thing VW New Beatles are are cheap or reliable.
For the road?! I mean, like the highway where people drive real cars? I picture it riding lush fairways with a couple of golf bags strapped to the bumper.
My 1994 Chevy Cavalier will crush that little thing up.
I don’t hate the Hummer. I just hate that people who drive them feel it necessary to slow down for speed bumps in the mall parking lot.
The tires never need air.
I can see the billboards now...
It's already been done.
Oh darn. I hope 7-Up doesn’t sue me.
“. . . and this little piggy went wii, wii, wii, . . . all the way home”
Gad, that’s ugly.
I'll say this though: we could see rapid growth in small car sales in the USA over the next 5-7 years, especially given the strong sales of the Honda Fit, Nissan Versa and Toyota Yaris, plus strong interest in the Smart ForTwo. Why do you think Ford will sell the next-generation Fiesta in the USA, and GM will build the next-generation Opel/Vauxhall Corsa as a Saturn model about 18-24 months from now? VW will likely sell something based on the Up! platform to take advantage of this trend, and Toyota is readying the new-generation Aygo specifically for USA sales to compete against the ForTwo.
The Germans are always behind Japan and the US in electronic reliability. Daimler’s SUVs like to shut down in traffic several years ago. Always wait a few years before buying German high tech items.
(rant)
How conservatives play into liberals’ hands on transportation:
As we all know, the liberal mantra on cars is that they should be smaller, more efficient, tinier.
But that’s not the goal for them. Anyone who’s read lib books about human planning and lifestyle knows that the ultimate lib dream is for us not to be able to have cars, but instead pushed into mass transit.
To this end not only do libs propose state-mandated fuel economy standards, but they love to be for safety regulations which add cost and weight. Well, if you add enough mandatory safety feature weight it doesn’t matter if you were designing a shoebox ‘cause it still won’t get decent MPG. If the MPG standard is high enough and the safety mandates tough enough eventually a legal car doesn’t just become expensive, it becomes impossible.
Now conservatives love freedom. We know that the freedom to go where we want, with a boat or a family or whatever, on our own schedule and not that of a train planner’s, is a key freedom in this wide and spacious America.
To that end people on FR react vigorously when someone proposes to implement Statist controls on our choice of vehicles. That’s great.
However, this fervor also extends into every thread referring to a car that isn’t a large SUV or truck. Invariably the comments run: My Hummer could fit two of those in the wheel well. My SuperCab uses those for speed bumps. The clear implication is: if you’re not driving 5 tons of steel about, you’re unsafe - and it’s more than lightly implied that it’s perfectly expected that drivers in SUVs should be able to casually smash into other cars.
—— it, nobody cares if you drive a motorcycle or an Explorer. But if you’re going to be for freedom it also includes the freedom to drive a small efficient car *without* being run over or crushed. The fact that some people choose to drive vehicles that can hardly turn or stop without capsizing does not mean others must do the same or die.
Secondly, while we all curse out the Venezuelan communist thug Hugo and his friends in Iran and the other barbarians who prosper because their camel hunting grounds happen to be sitting on oil, it might just conceivably be to our benefit to deprive them of our $ by driving vehicles that get good MPG.
Lastly, and most importantly, when we buy into this idea of needing 18 air bags and 14 crumple zones as adequate safety to get us the 5 blocks between home and the mini-mart, we give power to the Naderite socialists who would safety-regulate our cars into impossibility.
Besides, there’s a reason the guy in the next lane is driving with one hand on his cellphone and the other on his coffee cup, glancing at the movie playing on his in-dash DVD player, and only his knee on the wheel - he’s been indoctrinated to the idea that because his SUV gets 5 safety stars he is ‘safe.’ Maybe people should be afraid a bit when they drive, they might take it seriously.
(/rant)
Hehehe, that’s a coincidentally-shaped snowflake, but I like it.
You could use it as a dingy for the truck...
Amen...
I used to never even look at a BMW until it has been out as a chassis for 3 years.
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