We have always driven our vanagons at 75-80 on the highway, with no ill
effects (several trips back and forth across the country at those speeds
when on interstates. )    I never run in the red range, however.

Dave

At 10:48 AM 2/10/99 -0600, Alan Bosch wrote:
>Ron wrote:
>"I don't think I'd want to go much faster than the 75 mph range that my
>Westy offer..."
>
>In the recent past, I have seen volks post speed numbers similar to the
>above.  Not saying that any of these figures are unrealistic, but aren't
>you affraid of your engine digesting it self at these speeds?  Keeping one
>eye on the speedo and the other on the tach, I start to get nervous at
>65mph, as the tach approaches the limit of the solid green range, moving
>toward the broken green range.  It seems, at least in my bus, that sixty is
>a nice, comfortable cruise speed - not taxing the engine, but perhaps
>slowing up traffic a bit.
>
>Alan Bosch
>'88 Wolfsburg
>