Re: T-3 -- The Worst Car in the World?

[gthomas@st6000.sct.edu (Graham Thomas)]

> are there any explanations provided to prove author's claim? What about
> his personal experience of driving and/or owning one of these German
> lemons?

I remember reading this book a few years ago. He focused on the '66-'69 US
models pointing out the cooling problems that these models had. The
louvers on the air intake do point in the wrong direction and I
think there was an official service bulliten and maybe a recall on the
subject. Of course I wasn't even born when all this was going on so I
don't know how big a problem this actually was. Odds are that the models
we have driving today are 1) the ones that didn't cook themselves in the
'60s and 2) are kept in a state of tune that most everyday drivers buying
these things new probably didn't do, so this problem rarely affects us. 

Graham