Hi All,

IMHO

Our vans mean a lot to us and a lot of us cannot explain why, it's just a
feeling.  One article I read (I think Consumer Reports) had it criticism and
rated it with the pack of other vans they were testing but there closing
comment said, (sic.) "all things aside, each day when they took a lunch
break, they all piled into the Vanagon and left the other vans there to wait
for their return."  I think that says a lot about our vans.  Its simplicity,
functionality, comfort, and the interior atmosphere that promotes
camaraderie among passengers surpasses all the competition.

Jere

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:49 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