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[Fabri91]

But again, the norm test used to determine mileage in Europe is unrealistic to say the least.

 

[Urwumpe]

But again, the norm test used to determine mileage in Europe is unrealistic to say the least.

That's very diplomatic.

 

[Athena]

What about the new Volkswagen Passat GTE, BTW? :lol: (I need a new computer for DCS, buy more northern German cars, please...)

Are you a car dealer or something?

 

[MattBaker]

Are you a car dealer or something?

He's Jeremy Clarkson, just less of an .

 

[Urwumpe]

Are you a car dealer or something?

No :lol: Just citizen of Wolfsburg, Germany, with the usual problem that it is very hard to not get a offer from Volkswagen that you can't resist ...

That's what we call "downtown":

 

[PhantomCruiser]

What about the new Volkswagen Passat GTE, BTW? :lol: (I need a new computer for DCS, buy more northern German cars, please...)

That's on the short list also. We get a discount on the purchase too, which puts the price in the butter zone of what my wife would want to spend.

 

[mojoey]

He's Jeremy Clarkson, just less of an .

You shut your mouth. Them's Fightin' words.

 

[MattBaker]

You shut your mouth. Them's Fightin' words.

Disclaimer: Am not Argentinian.

@'Cruiser: How long are your normal drives (work, groceries, bottle-of-beer-place)? If they aren't much longer than an hour I would consider a Chevrolet Volt.

 

[Quick_Nick]

I've finally got to the point in my career where a $65K vehicle isn't completely out of the question. I'd just have to convince the Mrs. Cruiser.

I may be able to convince her to take a serious look at the III when they finally reveal what it's going to look like. But yeah, at the moment a turbo-diesel is probably my next vechicular purchase.

If you plug it in at work, I think you can tell people it's powered by a nuclear reactor.

 

[Urwumpe]

OK, the problems of my old car really get distilled down to the badly dirty throttle valve, the error memory reports a sporadic too low inlet pressure value and the part seems to be the source of the oil spray in the engine compartment.

Problem... letting a professional fix the stuff costs 200€ upwards... for a car that I don't expect to be worth more than 900€ when completely fixed.

 

[Fabri91]

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon"]Cruiser's ideal car.[/ame]

 

[MattBaker]

Problem... letting a professional fix the stuff costs 200€ upwards... for a car that I don't expect to be worth more than 900€ when completely fixed.

Don't get it fixed, sell it to some poor student, accept you won't go to Mithgarthr.

 

[Urwumpe]

Don't get it fixed, sell it to some poor student, accept you won't go to Mithgarthr.

WTF?! Not going to Mithgarthr is not an option! :huh:

 

[Ghostrider]

http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2014/08/cuba-abandoned-unfinished-soviet-nuclear-power-station.html

You were all gonna die.

 

[mojoey]

Cruiser's ideal car.

What? Not the Fiesta XR2?

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Cruiser's ideal car.

If only it weren't a Ford...

My typical daily (nightly rather) commute is 90 miles. If I only drive from home-work-home I can go the whole week without tanking, but am close to dry Friday mornings as I roll into the driveway.

On the list of cars (for me) is the Tesla (probably the III depending on the looks), Passat (diesel), Hyundai Genesis Coupe (wifey want the full size Genesis). My problem with getting a "nice" car is that I don't have covered parking at the house. A garage is in the works, but the kid has to graduate college first.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Disclaimer: Am not Argentinian.

@'Cruiser: How long are your normal drives (work, groceries, bottle-of-beer-place)? If they aren't much longer than an hour I would consider a Chevrolet Volt.

Disclaimer: I except me, I not use fighting words, the Holy Probe does not like those words.
:tiphat:

 

[Athena]

More annoying are various "free delivery" services, which only realise they are not free outside the ring when at your doorstep.

[/"suburb"-triggered rant]

Wow...does that happen all the year? Sounds pretty annoying...

That's what we call "downtown":

I'm guessing that like 70% of the buildings in that pic is owned by Volkswagen?

Although, are there any significant residential areas at your place downtown? :blink:

 

[Urwumpe]

I'm guessing that like 70% of the buildings in that pic is owned by Volkswagen?

Actually - almost all of that picture is the Volkswagen factory...

If you want to limit it exactly:

The picture is shot from the east. North is right, south is left, west is in the top.

The large body of water in the left on the picture is the Mittelland Canal, the meandering body of water on the right is the Aller river.

The road at the bottom, that starts in the lower center and goes North to South (and exactly north to south) is the Berlin bridge, the road that goes from the right edge to the bottom is the B188, a mayor interstate road.

In the far distance, at the top of the picture, is the A39 autobahn, going from left to right (south to north). It is at the top most bridge over the Mittelland canal.

Now, you can already draw a polygon around the edges: A39, Aller river, B188, Berlin bridge, Mittelland canal.

Now, subtract the tiny village at the top, between the A39 and the second large bridge over the mittelland canal. Thats the village of Sandkamp (not officially owned by Volkswagen), the white halls west of it (towards the A39) are of a local hauler company (owned by the former mayor of Wolfsburg) and Sitech, a company specialized in producing car seats, which is 100% owned by Volkswagen now. The gray area with the very regular single trees (in east-west rows) east of Sandkamp is one of the many Volkswagen employee parking lots, yes, there it starts again. Everything north of the small forest north of Sandkamp is Volkswagen again. Now you know what is all part of the Volkswagen factory north of the Mittelland canal.



If you follow the A39 from the Mittelland canal to the left, you can find two distinctive building complexes, one at the canal and another surrounded by lawns: The one at the canal is the Forum Autovision, a small business park for suppliers of Volkswagen - owned by Volkswagen. The one with the lawns is the MobileLifeCampus, formerly planned as "automobile university", now a training center for Volkswagen, operated by the AutoUni Wolfsburg company... 100% Volkswagen.

There is also a large road in the picture, running south of the canal from east to west (bottom to top), between MobileLifeCampus and Forum Autovision. Thats the Heinrich-Nordhoff-Road, a major road of Wolfsburg (as you can see by the magnitude of the traffic jams there). If you follow this road from the bottom past the A39 to the top of the image, you see a dark building complex left of it. Thats the former IAV building, IAV is a major engineering service provider of Volkswagen which resided there (company is 50% owned by Volkswagen). Now it houses the Volkswagen marketing department.

Directly at the canal is the highspeed rail from Hannover to Berlin.

Outside the image are the AutoMuseum of Volkswagen and the Volkswagen Individual and Volkswagen R design bureaus. Also, there are a few major guest houses for visiting managers in and around Wolfsburg.

So you can conclude: About 85% of the image is owned by Volkswagen.

 

[ISProgram]

http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2014/08/cuba-abandoned-unfinished-soviet-nuclear-power-station.html

You were all gonna die.

Nah, the Soviet economy was on our side!