I think their assessment of the Splittie is dead-on accurate.
The Bay was a great improvement, but still pretty crappy on all the
points they note. The Vanagon was a quantum leap better, but still
benefits from more sound/heat insulation, and additional tweaking of the
heat system.  Let's face it, WE love these things, but generally they
are aptly derided for some credible reasons.

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G. Matthew Bulley
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of JordanVw@AOL.COM
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 3:54 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Car-Talk and AOL slams the VW bus again..."worst car of the
millennium"

here's some of the copy from the "AOL Today" site.. amidst the pic of a
hippied out  mid 60's splitty.  this is NPR's "Car -Talk" radio show's
"worst
car of the millennium"  the bus tops out at #10..
i know the Car-Talk retards hate vw buses, but im beginning to think
Steve
Case (AOL's CEO) does too....

"If everyone had to own one of these as a first car as I did, there
would be
no traffic jams anywhere. At least half of us would be so turned off by
the
experience of owning a car, that we would seek alternate means of
transportation."
"There was no heat--unless, that is, the auxiliary gas heater caught
fire."
"The flower stickers were the only things that held the car together."
"The bus had no heat, blew over in the wind and used the driver's legs
as its
first line of defense in an accident."
"It was a death trap on the highway-you could never go fast enough. The
chances were good that you'd be hit from the rear."