The only beetles I see running around here are completely fully restored cars. So I guess they're just as crap as Fords according to you.
In America there is a man with a Ford Model T from the 1930's, the car is still running, it had an engine swap in 1940. He's still driving that car today, he's the first owner. VW didn't even have cars back then.
Yes they did. Do your history boy! The first Volkswagens are Porsches but even without that in mind, the 1930's was the start of Volkswagen, not bad considering Ford keep getting credit for 'making the first motorcar' which they didn't.
I did. The first Volkswagens are Porsches. No they're not. The first Volkswagen is ofcourse a Volkswagen, because it's the first car that carries the brand name Volkswagen.
No you didn't, i said, Early Volkswagens are Porsches but even without that in mind, Volkswagens were created in the 30's, so you didn't read. Technically speaking, The Beetle is a Porsche 356, they aren't even dis-similar in shape. Engine is the same. Chassis is probobly almost identicle. What more do you want? Ferdinand Porsche created Volkswagen! Just like Vauxhall are Opel's, Early Volkswagens are Porsches!
Because you like to compare to Ford: at least Ford started because he could. Porsche was only allowed to start because Hitler wanted cheap cars to run his soldiers around in. Not really a nice historical fact.
Yesterday I went to a auto-x / time-trial event with my daily car, a Toyota Starlet. I guess you could compare it to the UF1. It's slow and handles like crap but still good fun lol.
Oh btw my MR2 is dead, well the engine is. No compression anymore
But it's a good excuse to put a 3.0ltr V6 in, it'll be ready to go somewhere in October again. Can't wait
... I know it's not a car, but since that's my own property (not that I use it so much, but its a vehicle:shrug...over 35 years old, still running well.
Doesnt cost a lot of money to maintain it (at least a piston locking b/c of poor oil blend).
Fuel efficiency is great for a 2-stroke engine, can do almost 100 km with 2.5 l).
Btw its a S 3800 (50cc).
Couple of pics of the MR2 race car. With about 122bhp, it's not the fastest car in the world, but the handling is simply sublime; you can make it do exactly what you want, when you want, as it's perfectly neutral.
I've seen your movies and some of the others from the mr2 challenge.. looking great ! I wish we had something like that over here.. just sucks here with all the noise limits and ppl complaining.. even the usual trackdays are having problems. What suspension are you running on your AW ?
Its got the standard shocks (series regs dictate it must have) but we had some bespoke springs made up, specially for race use. The shocks aren't adjustable, but the front and rear ARBs are.