I rented a Peugeot 805 or 806 (I don't remember now) minivan in Spain. It was really cool. Lots of room for 6 people, and plenty of power with everyone loaded in. It had dual sliding doors, a 4 cyl motor, and mirrors that you could tuck in when the streets got too narrow, as they often did.
The best part, It was a 5 speed!!! It had a stick shift on the dash half way between the windshield and the floor. When driving back from Grenada, the speed limit was something like 80mph. A big Benz and a 7 series BMW, both with German tags flew by. I downshifted and was running at 95 mph with them for a while. I had to slow down for the corners that they just hugged. Lots of fun. Dave. '90 GLi ----- Original Message ----- : My only ride in a Eurovan was last year; it was one of a hotel's fleet of : vehicles used to take guests to/from the airport and other places. Two of : us were carrying our luggage and several VERY large boxes of the plastic : components we had gotten from the new molds we had been having tested and : approved: the cause of our trip. Each box was about 30 inches on a side, : nearly a perfect cube. ONE wouldn't have fit into the trunk of any : ordinary car. The Eurovan swallowed it all, easily, and it kept up with : traffic on the freeway as well as it threaded through the incredibly : crowded and narrow alleyways of downtown Taipei, Taiwan. I don't speak : enough Chinese, so couldn't find out which motor it carried. It seemed to : have as much get-up-and-go as my wife's Plymouth Voyager with the V-6. I : was quite impressed! Didn't get to find out whether it would have been as : fast with the air conditioning running, since it was "winter" (got clear : down to 46 Fahrenheit, only 3 degrees above the all-time historic record, : while we were there. The locals were suffering terribly!). Most of the : rest of the hotel fleet was Mercedes and BMW, and not the low-end models, : either. : Ron _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
