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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Having your cake and....
Message-ID: <1093@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 13:07:03 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1093
Posted: Sat Mar  9 13:07:03 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:05:12 EST
References: <367@wjvax.UUCP> <138@ncr-tp.UUCP> <1248@amdahl.UUCP>
Reply-To: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1248@amdahl.UUCP> ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems) writes:

>>                                    ...                            Some
>> people have only two speeds, on and off, but for the rest of us who put
>> a lot of miles in traffic where the speed is limited don't use the power
>> often.

>Never been a VW driver eh?  When one grew up on 40 horses, digipedal
>was all there was.

Quite true.  An older VW (40 hp or thereabouts) pretty well needed
flat-out speed gathering if you ever wanted to make it up to the speed
limit.

>> I don't think the reliability of any of the general run of fours will
>> be equal the the good V8s though, especially if loaded heavily.

>I trust you are speaking only of the turbo fours when making these
>comments as they are sure not the case for the non turbos!

The aforementiond digipedal, 40 hp, 1.2 litre VWs tend to be amazingly
reliable.  It is not at all uncommon to get 100K-150K miles out of
them before a rebuild if regular service and oil change intervals are
followed.  And it sure isn't because the engine doesn't get pushed to
the limit.


				   \tom haapanen
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