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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (93752)	12/27/2001 10:40:34 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Les, Poor old Volkswagen used to have the most reliable vehicle in the world, and now they rank among the worst in reliability. That applies to their Audi division, too. It is sad, but technology passed them by. But I still see the old Beetles on the street and, every once in a while, a VW Bus. Very rarely a Kharman Ghia. The New Beetles may be as reliable as a Yugo, but they sure are cute. I don't know about the crash test. That lack of an engine in the front made the old ones pretty deadly in a head-on. I do know that they were the all-time best in snow and ice. One of the places I worked in Germany, when I was in the Army, was on a mountain top. In fact, most places I worked were mountain tops. But, for most of them, the Army transported us to and from the place in four wheel drive trucks. At this one place, we drove our own vehicles. It was fun to drive up the hill and see all the vehicles stranded on the side of the road as we chugged on by. It was even more fun to wave at the folks who outranked us who were looking for rides when their big Caddies and muscle cars would go no further. Of course, we couldn't stop because you could never get going once you stopped. It was less of a blast coming back down the mountain with those huge-mongous cars out of control and behind us. <G>