Hello SUV Bashers-

While you and I certainly have some things against SUV's, we certainly
aren't getting better gas mileage than them in our Vanagons.

The average Vanagon only gets about 17-19 mpg .Mine has got 24 mpg before
only when driving non-stop under 55 mph.

The top 5 SUV's , the top being the Toyota  RAV 4-, get between 23-31 mpg.
The Rav-4 gets 27-31.

So clearly us Vanagon drivers are the gas guzzlers. Makes you wonder why a
anarchist group hasn't targeted us.

Now the older SUV's made while the Vanagon was imported to North America may
  get worse mpg.I haven't checked.

The A-3 VR6 Golf gets 27 city/31 hwy(172 hp,5 speed ).I don't know what the
newest Golf gets.

We could bash that I suppose-but, it's a VW. We love VW's, don't we?

Maybe I should'nt have brought this up. Maybe they know already. Maybe that
could explain why so many Vanagons burn.

Robert k
1982 Westfalia

Tip of the day: get a third brake light- I see a lot of rear -ended Vanagons

>From: Roger Reynolds <Rogerspace2@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: Rogerspace2@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: SUV bashing has gotten out of hand (NVC)
>Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:34:57 EST
>
>I just got this from the AOL home page, I hope the FBI has not been
>monitoring the Vanagon List lately ;)
>
>
>" PITTSBURGH (Jan. 4) - In the latest in a string of vandalism carried out
>in
>the name of the Earth Liberation Front, members of the radical
>environmental
>group are claiming responsibility for a fire at a Pennsylvania auto
>dealership.
>
>A posting on the group's Web site said the ``attack'' targeted SUVs in a
>fight ``to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural
>environment.''
>
>Jugs of gasoline were set ablaze under three vehicles, engulfing them and a
>nearby car in flames Wednesday at a dealership in Girard, about 110 miles
>north of Pittsburgh, FBI Special Agent Bob Rudge said. Three other vehicles
>also had jugs of gasoline set under them but failed to ignite.
>
>``I have no reason to doubt that it's an individual who committed the acts
>on
>behalf of the Earth Liberation Front,'' Rudge said."

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