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"Volkswagen vindicated by its new Rabbit"
Volkswagen Golf, Jetta, Corrado, Vanagon, new models, etc. (rec.autos.makers.vw.watercooled)
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Re: "Volkswagen vindicated by its new Rabbit" -
01-16-2007
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Papa wrote: Well, I like them, and I am an American. I definitely do NOT like SUVs or 4-wheel drive vehicles of any type. In going to the Mall or making a roadtrip on paved roads, they just seem like overkill and a big waste of resources. Yes, I like them too and I think they're a waste for the same reasons you do. My point was not that ALL Americans don't like them, but that the most don't. SUVs are a larger market. Sad, but true. Mike |
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upand_at_them (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in message news:1168987232.669756.116120 (AT) q2g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com... Papa wrote: Well, I like them, and I am an American. I definitely do NOT like SUVs or 4-wheel drive vehicles of any type. In going to the Mall or making a roadtrip on paved roads, they just seem like overkill and a big waste of resources. Yes, I like them too and I think they're a waste for the same reasons you do. My point was not that ALL Americans don't like them, but that the most don't. SUVs are a larger market. Sad, but true. Mike Got it, and yes - it is sad. |
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Papa wrote: Well, I like them, and I am an American. I definitely do NOT like SUVs or 4-wheel drive vehicles of any type. In going to the Mall or making a roadtrip on paved roads, they just seem like overkill and a big waste of resources. Yes, I like them too and I think they're a waste for the same reasons you do. My point was not that ALL Americans don't like them, but that the most don't. SUVs are a larger market. Sad, but true. |
one (SUV) for the 'no liftover' effect I get when trying to put heavy items
in and out plus the fact I can fit several adults comfortably in it on a
longish trip. Same reason I have a Jetta Wagon (TDi), fewer worries about
the old back with regard the liftover.
The problem with most earlier hatch backs is that they offer so little to
the consumer v a standard trunk. Even the Golf still has a back wall of
several inches you have to lean over to lift a box out of the back. That's
just asking people to pull a muscle lifting stuff out of the car.
Regarding the light truck, keep in mind mini-vans (kid/grocery haulers)
also fall into the catagory as do pick-up trucks used in business and light
vans ussed in business like fedx and ups. So while there is no question the
American consumer loves trucks, the truck covers a broad spectrum.
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Mike wrote: Volkswagen vindicated by its new Rabbit When practically everybody in the car business abandoned hatchbacks as if they were infected with some sort of bird flu, Volkswagen stubbornly stuck to the design with its Golf. at http://www.washtimes.com/autoweekend...1354-3828r.htm Everyone else in the car business is abandoning hatchbacks because Americans want big gas guzzlers that can climb mountains, for all the trips they take to the mall. Hatchbacks are still made and sold to the rest of the world. [another] Mike |
Chevy Malibu Maxx. It works well for daily driving, and for transporting
R/C model airplanes. As might be expected, there will not be a hatchback
version of the next Malibu.
I'm hoping there will again be a Passat TDI wagon by the time I am ready to
replace my Malibu. I get OK mileage, but would get 50% better with a TDI.
Before you start flaming me for talking about a Chevy on this group, I have
a VW, an '86 Cabriolet, which is why I am here. The Cabriolets were made in
Germany in '86, while the Mk II Golfs were made in Pennsylvania at the time.
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