Aneirin
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ORIGINAL: susie
I think you were watching a different version of the programme to the rest of us then. The team did take cheap cars across part of Africa but they were not cars that the average person anywhere would be considering buying. They were not even competing with a Beetle. The Beetle was the "back up" car that whoever had a car that failed would be forced to drive. It did not win "hands down" as they all made it to the end of the challenge.
We watched the same show but you failed to understand what it was about. The show had the presenters with a limited budget with which they could buy any car. They did that and competed with the Beetle, all the cars making it, but only just, with one hardly recognisable as a car. The Beetle did the same journey and was complete at the end. Right at the end they stood around arguing about who had won, and then Clarkson reminds them all who won, and the final shot is the Beetle tootling past with its distinctive burble. The VW Beetle won. D'uh.
The lesson there for all to see, was when you've got no money, make your car choice carefully, and buy something like a Beetle which if even 40 years old will still be a good runner.
I would have to disagree with your statement that if you don't have money, buy something like a Beetle, which even if 40 years old will still be a good runner, as I ran a VW air cooled motor for ten years, what skills were lacking in Modern Britain to keep such a simple engine in good order, I had to learn myself, as garages other than expensive specialist air cooled garages, were useless. The other thing, it rains in Britain, in fact it rains a lot, and these 40 year old machines rot and rot fast. The yearly pre MOT servicing usually includes the use of a MIG welder, and the same tool again after the vehicle has failed the MOT to get the bits you missed in the pre MOT servicing.
Oh, yes, they are also thirsty engines, 19 mpg was the norm for my 1600, and I used to drive it in accordance with a vacuum guage/ economy guage.
They are reliable, but the engines are past their best at 70k, most vee dubs around seem to be running if on their origial engines, circa 200k. My first engine was 260k before it self destructed on a hill and set fire to the road.
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