It's good to know that I'm not the only one who thinks that Garrison
Keillor isn't funny. My 1986 Vanagon may have some faults but, overall
it has been one of the best and most trouble-free vehicles that I've
ever owned. The same was true for my 1964 VW sedan. 
Chuck Anderson
'86 GL

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Jim Felder
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:49 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Car talk bias - a little off topic

On Feb 24, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Al and Sue Brase wrote:

> Sorry, Kim, but I can't agree about the 1500, nor with much of
anything
> else the Car Talk yokels have to say.
> 1500:
>
I have to chime in here, after all it isn't every day you can criticize
a sacred cow like Car Talk and get away with it, all of us having been
trained to believe they know everything about cars. It's like how
people get offended when you say Garrison Keillor isn't funny, people
acted like you called their mother something.

Anyway, not long after I bought my 90 vanagon new, I was driving down
the road in it and car talk was on. Someone called in with a question
about a vanagon. You would have thought the caller had said something
about Mrs. Tappet. They couldn't avoid shouting over each other about
how bad a car the vanagon was. "Worst handling car ever made" was one
of the comments, and there were many more, and it seemed to me that
they not only had not driven a vanagon, they were talking about some
other car they hated. The characteristics they were complaining about
were opposite of what I thought I was driving at that very moment.

Their parting advice to the caller: Wait until next year, VW is coming
out with the vanagon's replacement the Eurovan. Wait and buy that, it's
a much better car.

: )

Jim