|
CD_Editor
|
 |
« on: October 05, 2008, 10:26:10 pm » |
|
 First Drive:   Built on the same assembly line as Chrysler's minivans, the new VW Routan has a unique exterior and interior design, but doesn't include Chrysler's fold-into-the-floor Stow 'N Go second row seats, reports Managing Editor, Grant Yoxon. Prices start at $27,995. More:Read the article | View the photos | All the First Drives
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Honda Owner
|
|
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2008, 01:05:36 am » |
|
Is somebody at VW crazy? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Iso Octane
Auto Obsessed
 OfflineVehicle: G35, Miata
Gender: 
Location: Toronto
Posts: 674
to the beat of the different drum
 
|
|
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2008, 01:44:00 am » |
|
What year is it again? Almost 2009? Humankind is still not making any forward progress?
That's a shame. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thinking Out Loud
Auto Obsessed
OfflineVehicle: 2012 Jeep Sahara & 2003 Suzuki GSF600 Bandit S
Gender:
Location: Toronto
Posts: 914
|
|
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2008, 07:45:11 am » |
|
And, in return, Chrysler get the rights to have VW put; - a 'cross hairs' grill
- unsupportive seats
- blacked out paint
- a 'Shelby' sticker on the right rear hatch lid
onto the Rabbit GTI. Voila, the rebirth of the 2009 Dodge Omni GLH is here! Get Iacocca on the phone, stat! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Fortune favours the bold!
|
|
|
|
Schmengie
|
|
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2008, 12:08:46 pm » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
' Saw an Alfalfa Romeeo go by - furrin sports car forty feet long, mebbe nine inches high.' - Charlie Farquharson
|
|
|
|
Cortina
|
|
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2008, 12:09:08 pm » |
|
It should be interesting to see how many VW Routans/Re badge Caravans will sell here in Canadaland. As to why VW did this, they must have some kind of technology sharing going on.  Ummmm....Maybe they will teach Dodge how to make better plastics.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Diesel Advocate
Learner's Permit
Offline
Gender:
Location: Burlington, ON
Posts: 99
|
|
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2008, 12:52:35 pm » |
|
This is not a bad looking van even if it is Chrysler based. I would have hoped that VW would have added a diesel option for this van as used in the European versions of the Chrysler Voyager (Town&Country). Still the gas mileage is comparible to the other Vans even Honda and Toyota. |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: October 06, 2008, 01:10:48 pm by Diesel Advocate »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Sir Osis of Liver
|
|
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2008, 06:20:35 pm » |
|
It looks fine. The interior is better than in the Chrysler versions. It's likely more reliable than anything VW could have put together on short notice. Seems like win-win to me. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. –
Carl Sagan
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Mighty Duck
|
|
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2008, 02:36:00 pm » |
|
 The Caravan/Town and Country might not be the best van in the world, but it's one of the best-selling for a reason. It's probably Chrysler's best vehicle overall, in fact. With the tweaks VW has made, it sounds like a very promising unit in the van market. Now put a TDI under the hood! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Demosthenes [noun], dem-aws-thene-s
1) (384 BC – 322 BC) the greatest of the Ancient Greek orators
2) pseudonym used by Valentine Wiggin in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game to alter the events of world history
|
|
|
|
airbalancer
|
|
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2008, 02:42:13 pm » |
|
Which TDI would you like under the hood, 4 or 6 ?
Is not all the Germany companies used the same clean diesel technology? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
