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Russ- that's why I love VWs so much. As an engineer, I marvel at the fact that I own a 30 year old car with an engine that's based on 65 year old techology with a 40 year old computerized fuel injection system- and in its day it was years ahead of anything Detriot was doing. I'm a nitpicker when it comes to engineering- I can look under the hood of my wife's Hondasuzu Passporodeo and spot engineering mistake after mistake- stuff that comes up all the time and bites me on the ass. Even my old Dodge Stratus, which was actually pretty good as far as American cars go, had some flaws that made me shake my head. The guy who currently owns it- a good buddy from college, just told me he's got two big rust bubbles in the front hood. WTF?! That shouldn't be happening anymore. Cars just don't rust like that. VWs aren't perfect- but the things that have gone wrong in my Passat have not been because of bad engineering flaws. I buy a car because it's well-engineered, and the Passat to me seems very well executed. The biggest fault with my Fasty is the fact that it rusts because the quality of steel used 30 years ago by everyone was crap. We've come a long way since then with better metallurgy and galvanization. About the only thing that was VW's fault are those $#@%&! box sections in the fenders. On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:51:54 -0600, Russ Wolfe <russw@classicvw.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:06, Constantino Tobio wrote: > > When I close the doors on my Fasty, the magnetic vent covers pop up. > > Gotta love the airtightness of a VW. > > > > > And that is on a 30+ year old car. Lets see Detroit do that?? > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '71 FB AT > '66 FB MT > '64 T34 (not running) > '65 T1 (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >