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- From: efk00@cd.amdahl.com (Eddie Kieger)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: reliable cars
- Message-ID: <7aZm02QL1eY201@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:27:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.155734.3591@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug18.170909.12764@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.170909.12764@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
- tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Guptill) writes:
- >In <1992Aug18.155734.3591@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- >mas6d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (M. Anne Shackelford) writes:
- >
- >>I am graduating from school and am interested in purchasing a small
- >reliable car
- >>- preferably hatchback.
- >
- >>Do you have recommendations of cars to consider buying and cars to
- >consider NOT
- >>buying.
- >
- >I _HIGHLY_ recommend an '81 or later Rabbit Diesel. I know someone who
- >has
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Only if you like going <= 45 mph at full throttle up hills...........
-
- My ma had one & it was the BIGGEST piece of $hit I ever drove.
-
- >750,000 miles on one he drives daily, I had one that I sold with 305,000
- >miles on it (it still got 40-45 mpg on the hwy) and I currently own one with
- >about 125,000 miles on it. (My _new_ one.) They're cheap to run, reliable,
- >can use most parts from 81-84 water cooled VW's, and sound like a school bus
- >when you start them in cold weather. (Who could ask for more?) And I never
- >had any trouble with the old one in cold weather--even if I didn't plug it
- >in at -10f. If you have any questions about the car, get in touch with me.
- >Anyone else have any long-lived diesels out there?
- >
- >--
- >|Tom Guptill | tgpt_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu |
- >|CPU Box 277445 U of R | tgpt_ltd@db1.cc.rochester.edu |
- >|Rochester, NY 14627 | |
- >|(716) 274-0351 | |
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