Jetta

[MSNFlier]

go along to get along...

1998 Volvo S70 T5 manual. Got a killer deal on it used with about 33,000 on it in April, 2002. Has 77,000 on it now, only had to replace the alternator. Fast, fun, super-safe, built like a brick sh-thouse, and I bet I paid less for it than someone would pay for a similarly-equipped Jetta!!

The Swedes are generally a pretty staid people, but they do know how to have some fun, from time to time.

Fly safe!!!

PS I do have a couple friends who generally fit the description in the beginning of this thread (liberal, etc.) and they drive a Passat. If they weren't lawyers, maybe they would have bought a Jetta

 

[bigD]

and no, I do not drive a Jetta.

Given your user pic, I think we already knew that!

 

[FutureRJPilot]

A good friend of mine is a pilot for SkyWest and drives a new Jetta Wolfsburg edition, it's actually really nice and turbo charged. Oh and it's a male.

 

[avbug]

All this yuppie fern-bar crap with german cars and sex appeal. Gee whiz. Everyone knows that if you're going to do Volkswagen, then the 72 Transporter Bus is without equal. To really do it right, take out the middle seat and reupholster the interior with carpet scraps, fix the muffler with safety wire and pop cans, and drive it until it dies. I can't say that chicks dig it...but it's far cheaper than chicks, gets better mileage, and in no time at all you can say it's paid for. You can't say that about chicks. Not now, not ever.

Of course, to do it up right, you need a 1988 Suzuki Samurai with faded paint, a shot interior, no seats, a jammed starter, worn out clutch, and stickers to hold the glass in place. I get 25 miles to the gallon with this baby, and if you happen to be restricted to 30 mph uphill, I can probably beat you over a 10 mile course. On a good day I can exceed 55 mph on level ground, 65 mph with at least 10 knots of tailwind.

Best of all, it's paid for. If the Jetta is paid for, it's a great car, too.

 

[suk_sqz_bng_blo]

Samurai

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Of course, to do it up right, you need a 1988 Suzuki Samurai with faded paint, a shot interior, no seats, a jammed starter, worn out clutch, and stickers to hold the glass in place.

I agree with you on that except the part about the worn out clutch and its got to be a hard top one. Theyre awesome 4 wheelers.

But I'll still take a Jetta or GTI anyday over it.

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

ok, I'll come out of the closet. I own a Jetta. Don't tell my father! Oh, wait a second, I got mine using his pass to the auto-auction. Paid a 25% discount from book value. He knows already. At least he took the news well.

Really, not a bad car, if you're in a city, it beats the hell out of a pickup truck. Have a friend that drives a Passat. Pisser car. Great performance. And he's a solid conservative.

This thread is too funny.


Mr. I.

 

[flywithastick]

Everyone knows that if you're going to do Volkswagen, then the 72 Transporter Bus is without equal

What about the VW Thing. anyone old enough to remember that fine ride!?

 

[metrodriver]

For those TDI drivers: if you need some free gas, hook up with a caravan pilot. Everytime you shut down the engine it pours perfectly good jet A in a can that's full after 6 shutdowns, about the size of a 16 or 24 ounce cup. pilots don't know where to go with the stuff and usually let it spill on the ramp or attack an ant colony somewhere.

 

[islandhopper]

Re: Samurai

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Of course, to do it up right, you need a 1988 Suzuki Samurai with faded paint, a shot interior, no seats, a jammed starter, worn out clutch, and stickers to hold the glass in place.

I agree with you on that except the part about the worn out clutch and its got to be a hard top one. Theyre awesome 4 wheelers.

But I'll still take a Jetta or GTI anyday over it.

Fastest front wheel drive car I ever seen was a GTI turbo nitrous with a stock auto trans! It did mid 9's in the 1420.

Personally I go for toyota Land Cruisers. On this planet, or any other.

 

[Capthuff]

1420????
Do you mean 1320??

 

[avbug]

I remember the Vdub Thing. Never owned one, but thought about it.

Metrodriver, every turbine engine does that. Some engines dump it directly on the ramp, others uitlize the small can you're talking about. It's commonly called an "EPA can," because it collects the fuel to prevent the EPA from seeing it dumped. It's part of the function of your P&D valve, which not only regulates or divides fuel flow to your nozzles, but serves in dumping residual fuel, or other drain valves with drain the burner can after shutdown.

 

[islandhopper]

1420????
Do you mean 1320??

NO! It was so fast we clocked it with an extra hundred feet so not to embarrass the guys running V8's. Nah typo. DOH!

 

[Av8trxx]

"Over 99% of all female pilots drive Jetta's"

No way. I know dozens of female pilots and not one drives a VW anything!

I like my Acura Integra....it's paid for!

 

[metrodriver]

Avbug, airplanes that are of a better design blow the fuel into the burnercans on shutdown, like the metro (garret engines) or the King Air (PT6). The design of the epa can on the caravan just sucks. No place to go with the fuel after 6 shutdowns and so most folks let it pour over the ramp, and if you park into a headwind it goes all over the cargo pod doors. In my case the fuel eats up the skin on my hands, for that reason I don't like to drain the can either. It's just about impossible to push / twist the little drain up without getting jet A over your fingers. I don't understand why Cessna couldn't make a system that burns the fuel or drains it back into a fuel tank for future use. Oh well, I think the keyword here is Cessna, I think they are the Fords of the aviation world: large quantities of inferior products.
And you guessed it I don't drive a Ford, not after the problems my parents had with 3 different ones over a few years. I drive a 14 year old toyota with 200.000 miles and hardly any problems. If I ever get a flying job that affords me a new car I might get a Jetta or Passat, or even better a Nissan Maxima (a blast to drive with one of the smoothest shifting automatics, or if you're like me and hate automatics, they are available with a 6 speed manual, wow). And if I had to buy a SUV it would be a BMW 5 series stationwagon or the volvo V7 T5 stationwagon, or a Subau Legacy stationwagon: 4 wheeldrive, same space inside as the big tanks, great fuel economy and most important: it won't roll over ...

 

[AA717driver]

I've always wanted to be gay and liberal

But I just couldn't do it. Maybe driving a Jetta will put me over the edge... .

I've got a GS400 now...soon to be sold. Looking at a "Rex".TC

P.S.--If you really want to get chicks, get a F-150 and some 'Carharts'--and for God's sake, don't tell them you're a pilot!

 

[Skaz]

I made my first visit to your shores in Dec last year, and must admit that I enjoyed it tremendously.

Something that struck me as very interesting was the way bussinesses are positioned....by that I mean the 'lot' of a car dealer, or pharmacy, or supermarket....everything is kinda 'stand-alone' and so huuuge

But the car dealerships were great to look at. My GF is from DC and her dad was looking to buy her a new vehicle, the old one was getting cranky. So we went round to Nissan, Jeep, Isuzu, Ford, GMC, ...um, think thats it.
I was most surpirsed at the build quality of especially the Nissan cars. Talking sedans here....they were put together well, but felt cheap, the metal used for bodywork is thin and feels like youre gonna dent it leaning against the car, interior feels like they used cheap plastic for dashboard and centre console.
Same thing with the Ford 'Explorer'?sports model, awesome vehicle, but plastic doorhandels on inside, with the seam from the injection molding visible and tangible.....
I have a Nissan 'pickup' here in Africa, called a Hardbody. 3L V6 4x4, this thing is bullet proof, been EVERYWHERE with it, from the swamps of the Okavango delta, to the Makgadikgadi pans, to the coast and desert of Namibia....lost three number plates wading through rivers, but still going strong. MY GF, used to automatic, reversed it through my garden wall........wall farked, truck has little scratch.
The Nissan Xterra was nice, little low on power? but just right for outdoors people. The Jeeps were incredible, extremely high quality build and even more capable.Just lotsa bucks....
The Isuzu was as expensive as Jeeps, but worst quality and value of the lot.

The VW Bug, is a chick car, even here, the Golfs tend to be not, especially the GTI, nor the Passat....more for yuppie guys.

What is definately guy vehicles here, are the 4x4's, not SUV's like Jeep Liberty, BMWx5 etc (them too, but more women drivers), the real rough and tumble guy cars are the Nissan Hardbody, Mitsubishi Colt, Mazda Drifter , Toyota Raider pickups......thems the ones you see out in the bush

 

[avbug]

Metro,

Most aircraft do use EPA cans or simply overboard drains. Some do take it back for re-use, but most do not. Don't get too excited. It's normal.

 

[Speedtree]

Don't bash Fords just because you've had bad luck. I've had good success with them. They drive nice. '87 mustang was the best car I've owned. drove it from PA to TX straight through 21 hours no problem. I've owned three fords all well over 100,000 miles. Current thunderbird has 155,000 and still going strong.


I would drive a Jetta. There are always gaps in the stereotypes.

vw IS a poor man's porsche which is why they are so successful.

I owned an '84 rabbit diesel. what does that say about me. 0-60 in three days. I hated people who pulled out in front of me because it would take me so long to get back up to speed. Got my first two speeding tickets in it though. Go figure.