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jet-powered VW-BUG, I want one now !
Thats a riot. A Jet-powered VW - BUG. I want one oh those in my Garage,
and a Gas-station too, so I can fill it up. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/vw.html |
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jet-powered VW-BUG, I want one now !
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jet-powered VW-BUG, I want one now !
Hi!
Larry Bud wrote: > wrote: > > Thats a riot. A Jet-powered VW - BUG. It's not a Bug, it's a New Beetle. Which is a positive piece of information to all the Bug lovers out there. > > http://www.jumpingpixels.com/vw.html > > Look for Ron soon in the next Darwin Award list. Besides, some of the story (as found in a link from jumpingpixels to http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg.../30/JETCAR.TMP) reads decidedly bull****-ish: | In 2000, Patrick bought a new VW bug. He had visited various | car dealers with a full-sized cardboard mock-up of the jet engine, | opening and closing the rear doors of car after car (lots of | station wagons and hatchbacks) to see which one would accommodate | the jet engine best. The VW won. Yeah, right. The New Beetle, well-known for its tiny boot, wins over "lots of station wagons and hatchbacks". Sure. Heck, even a Golf would have won over the Beetle. Now look inside a Passat wagon. No need for the contraption to stick out like a ..., well, some things are better left unsaid. But that would've killed the "JET-POWERED VW-BUG" headline, wouldn't it? Sheesh. I always knew the New Beetle to be a car for poseurs, but to be proven *this* right ... | Asked if he was afraid of hurting himself or others with his | jet car, Patrick said, "No. Since the age of 18, I've been doing | engine testing and working with combustion devices. I've done it | for years and years and I've never hurt myself or anyone else. Crossing the road on a red light must be safe, I've done it yesterday and nothing happened. | He thinks that when it hits 160 mph -- he hasn't seen that ... | yet -- the car will start lifting off the ground, Why should it? Certainly the German tuning crowd has already built a 160 mph Beetle or two. VR6 turbo or whatever. All the VW Golf A4 tuning parts will also fit the Beetle, and the fastest Golf A4 -- the R32 -- will do 150+ mph in stock configuration already. R32 brakes on this jet-powered Beetle, BTW, would have been a way to show at least a trace of the "experience, judgment and maturity" this guy claims to use. It also should have been possible to finance that conversion, since it would only have meant a tiny fraction of the alleged $250k price tag. | but "the fun is not necessarily how fast you want to go. | The fun is the sound of the thing. Get a stereo. Yours, Erik. -- "yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* --- NO TERRIER" -- Hanno Foest in d.a.s.r. |
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