<VV> Rabbit Diesel in a Vair-Humor

[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

Yeah, that was a pretty pathetic diesel. The new VW diesels are lighter and  
a BUNCH more powerful. Alas, only 4 bangers...
 
In a message dated 12/20/2008 2:32:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
corvair at fnader.com writes:

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.
>
>On the other hand, the new diesels are  considerably faster than the old
>ones. Then name could be  justified.
>
>George  Jones
>--------------------------------
>Performance Corvair  Group
>Tidewater Corvair Club (since 1987)
>Central Virginia  Corvair Club (since 2006)
>Corvair Society of America (CORSA)(since  1987)
>'65 Monza Crown V8 Convertible
>'66 Monza Coupe  Custom
>
>
>On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:36 AM,  <Richard.Gaffney at gulfstream.com> wrote:
>
>   
>
>>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.............
>>
>>Rick Gaffney
>>Corsa  140/4
>>


 
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