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Subject:Re: passed by a jetta
From:john keith hopp
Date:Tue, 11 Apr 1995 08:44:13 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Josh Poulson wrote:

> > I have been driving 50 miles a day commuting with my vanagon for a year.
> > That is too much a waste for vanagon miles. Maybe it's time to get a Jetta?
> 
> I test-drove a Jetta with a VR6. I loved it. I can't afford it. I cried.
> 
> By the way, I've driven past Vanagons like they were standing still in 
> my FOX GL. Those tiny little things have plenty of umph in the midrange
> to pass heavy lumbering beasts.
> 
> ------------
> Joshua R. Poulson, Systems Engineering, ADP Dealer Services, Portland, OR

Tho I do love to drive my bus, there is nothing like the ol' turbo-d surge 
when I accelerate.  No, not neck-snapping, but (in more ways than one) 
I'm truly smokin'! (but not inhalin')   ;-)

JKH
New Mexico
'70 Kombi
'92 Jetta