[Vwdiesel] OT but diesel related

[brian gochnauer]

Now that you we all own 60% of GM we can get them to build economical
diesels ;)

On 7/15/09, travis gottschalk <tgott at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Correct me if I am wrong but VW still does make the caddy/truck. Just not
> in the use and from the pictures I have found not on the same side for
> driving (steering on the right side). Looks mostly the same with a few
> changes. Just like Ford having a diesel in Europe. We will just never see
> these vehicals because of our joke emissions. You would think that using
> less fuel would mean less crap in the air over all (not in all cases) but I
> guess we are stuck with most diesels getting 15 MPG rather then 50 MPG. Not
> to mention the safty reasons they don't bring some here. Maybe if we didn't
> all drive Semi truck sized vehicles we wouldn't need to have something that
> has to protect you from crashing into those same big vehicles. Just my own
> rant of what frustraits me.
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> On a side note for safety. I found out today that if you never rotate your
> tires and you wear out just one pair (front or back) you always want to put
> the better tires on the back. That is more important with water and snow.
> The car will go the direction of the best tires and if it is in the front
> and you hydroplan you are going to spin out. If in the back you may just go
> straight of the road. Same for the snow tires though which is why you should
> have all 4 tires snow tires. I personally found out at a tire testing site
> today and my thoughts have been corrected (after doing a couple 180's on the
> test track).
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> Travis G
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