Interesting to me are the two diesel engine options and the 6sp manual
tranny option.  I tend to keep my vehicles for 10+ years.  I'd guess by 2019
petro-fuel will be pretty expensive, so miles per gallon will be more
important.  Diesels do seem to run a lot longer than gas motors, unless VW
has figured out a way to make them fail (so they can sell another 'unit')
early and get the public to believe it's 'normal'.
  On another note:  I recently saw an ad for "cosmetic updates" to make your
Dodge Sprinter into a Mercedes.  You could probably do that to your
Toureg..make it look like a Cayenne...Or your Mercury Van...make it into a
Toyota Previa...
  A third note:
  Does anyone else find those Sprinter/Mercedes to appear to be slight
Overkill?  I'm starting to see a lot of them around Oregon being driven as
daily drivers/work/windsurfing vehicles.  I've never driven one myself but
they certainly are huge looking and look quite top heavy.
   Don Hanson

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Peter T. Owsianowski <
pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
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