<VV> Rabbit Diesel in a Vair-Humor

[Bill Elliott]

Actually I had one of the last German built diesel Rabbits which had a 
little "tinkering" done to it... it was nearly as quick as a gas Rabbit 
(though it did put out a nice cloud of black smoke under full throttle), 
got 55mpg at 55mph, had awesome handling, and would cruise 85-90 all day 
long. One of the best cars I ever owned.

My parents liked it so much they bought one of the first American made 
Rabbit Diesels... it was everything you describe... excruciatingly slow, 
poor handling, and barely got 30mpg. One of the worst cars I've ever 
driven. We ended up converting it to gas... and it was still nasty.

The new TDI's are very "undiesel-like"... I wouldn't mind one at all... 
would make an interesting Corvair transplant...

Still prefer a Corvair though!

Bill


George Jones wrote:

>Always made me wonder why they didn't change the name to Turtle when the put
>the diesel in it.
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>On the other hand, the new diesels are considerably faster than the old
>ones. Then name could be justified.
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>George Jones
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>Central Virginia Corvair Club (since 2006)
>Corvair Society of America (CORSA)(since 1987)
>'65 Monza Crown V8 Convertible
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>On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:36 AM, <Richard.Gaffney at gulfstream.com> wrote:
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>>The Rabbit diesel couldn't even move the Rabbit, let alone a heavier  car!
>>There was a switch in the throttle to turn off AC at full throttle so the
>>car would actually move away from a stop light. Accel time for 0-60 was
>>measured by a sundial.............
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>>Rick Gaffney
>>Corsa 140/4
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