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Subject:Re: T5 road test on Deutsche-Welle TV
From:pdooley
Date:Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:49:14 -0500

Plenty of vids on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOcqtBhQctc

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Stephen Grisanti
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 8:59 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: T5 road test on Deutsche-Welle TV

Ever since TV went digital our local PBS station has three channels, with
23/3 being the MHz Worldview channel featuring things like France 24 News,
This is Beijing, My India, the Swedish detective series �Wallender,� in
Swedish, etc.� While awake at 0400 this morning I found an English language
show called �Drive It� on DW-TV, sort of like a German �Motorweek,� and one
of the spotlight tests was of the new T5 Multivan that is not imported here.
�

For those who�ve only seen still pix of this van it was a treat, but
basically a brochure in motion with the handsome and stately vehicle shown
being driven around left curves, right curves, down tree-lined roads, etc..�
All bland exterior shots and nothing very exciting.� Some of the highlights:
Weekender-type interior with second row seats that face forward or rotate to
face rearward across the fold-up table, twin-turbo TDI with a top speed of
192 KM/h, seven-speed dual-clutch manumatic, 7.9 liters/100 KM (is that
about 30 MPG?), and costs from the basic 30,000 Euros to the as-tested
49,000.� Wowch!� I did get back to sleep secure in the knowledge that I
would not be buying one soon, for many reasons.

Stephen

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