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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:06 am    Post subject: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Bus info starts about 1/2 way down...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/19/r...story.html
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Descriptors like “uniquely German mindset” are phrases that Americans understand. And I hate to be the one to say it, but the engineers that replaced the Vanagon with the Eurovan are not the postwar Germans who were humbled by the Nazi atrocities and American defeat. The insinuation of the story is that these VW Germans had regressed to the usual arrogant attributes of the prewar era, being a generation removed from that embarrassment. The Beetle, the Type 2, Rabbit and Vanagon were all sensible modest vehicles that Americans loved. Its as if to say that the “corporate culture of cheating” is the New Fascism. A slightly kinder facsism than Germany showed us in the past. I suppose we should be grateful for that.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Americans rely on Civil Tort Lawyers' "opinions" to judge german culture. Story at 11.

Kinda embarrassing. Moreso than the whole diesel scandal, imho. Someone opined their customer base wanted high performance and great gas mileage, and that's what they got.

Someone else opined that business will be run like a business, without morals; so it is up to the voting public to legislate constraints that limit what business can do.

Not to mention the lengthy history of (american) companies doing their best to work around emission laws.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Good grief, please send this to off topic area.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

I hate to say this, but it is a known fact of life that the Deutschlander cars, trucks are an electrical nightmare.
Always have been, probably always will be.

"Keep it simple stupid" doesn't translate well.

Roll over to any car dealer and bend any mechanics ear.
You'll find out.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Rellacing the Vanagon with a Eurovan and eventually a Chrysler Caravan says it all.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 4:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Hyperbole.

Find an article that suggests VW made a smart decision not to ramp up a multi-billion dollar project on the hope that American buyers would pay 40k for nostalgia. No such article exists. Here's a scoop: VW's simply smarter than that. Of the people whacking to pictures of that bus- what percentage of those would actually plunk money down on one? The NB was a much higher percentage- and VW knows it.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 5:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Yeah what he said. Desperate journalism fabricates a controversy
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Terry Kay wrote:


Roll over to any car dealer and bend any mechanics ear.
You'll find out.


yep....

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note the laptop on the drivers seat. that's what it takes to keep these toilets rolling these days....

remember that when your touchscreen takes a dump, controls your HVAC, radio, and all the other "goodies" you "can't live without"
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Having lived this roller coaster myself, I have a little insight. I was in the fortunate position in the early 2000's to afford a new car. I had driven all kinds of VWs all my life. I still had the '67 westy rolling around, going to semi-local VW shows, and having fun being a 30 something self built businessman. I heard that the last model year of the Westfalia was going to be the 2003, so I talked a nearby dealer into getting me one to look at. It came across a couple states on a transport, and I got all the paperwork fixed up and cleared. Was the first new vehicle I bought. And most likely the last.

As I was talking to the dealership, they had some nifty glossies of the Microbus. The dealer hoped that in a few years I could come back and get one of these as my next new car. I liked the looks, but the idea that it could be sold to folks like me who actually knew what the original was, was ridiculous.

The idea was sickly sweet. Yet another attempt at getting nostalgic enthusiasts to believe in VW again. I am of the opinion that it was people like me that were actually the reason the redone Microbus was not going to fly. I already HAD the fun of the early bus. In fact, I had 3 in my yard at that time. I still have one in my yard now. That era is part of the wonderful history that I keep, in the way it is meant to be kept, restored or restorable. They were inexpensive to make, and at the time, were easy to maintain. They were not meant to last too long. So, those people believing in the "flower power" stuff stuck with rigs that have all gone to rust and dust, or stayed with those folks that are still able to do what it takes to make them go.

This is not the way car makers work now. VW has no interest in flower power. They long ago left off trying to keep hippies happy. You know where the $'s are? Not with the kids who scrape by to keep old tin functioning while weeping that things aren't the way they used to be.

VW can, and I mean CAN, do what ever they want. They can make very few cars that come to the US, its not going to hurt the monster they have become if they do or do not make a retro for a few folks like me that would buy a brand new Microbus.

I don't really want the retro, but it would be nice to have the option of buying one. What I want is the one that is already out there. The California. I think the forward progression of the transporter, moving forward, keeping the idea of the original in progress is what, at least a few of us, are looking for.

It is as easy a decision as any that a car maker can make. My opinion of why the California is not imported to the US (yet) is this: VW wants the 'flower people' to take a hike. Cars are sold to a different kind of folks now. They sell cars to make things look good for VW, and not to appease the needs of anyone but VW.

The California is selling in Europe because there are a new kind of folks that want to go camping. It is a relatively new phenomenon over there that people actually wan to camp! When those folks grow a little older, they will again stay at a Villa, or resort. Then VW will have to come up with a new generation of the transporter to get that new generation of buyers interested. It may or may not be a retro look. And I don't really care. What I care about is function. What I believe to be the traditional German Engineering goal is, was, and always should be is this: Form Follows Function. Its simple. Make a retro fit that? Not a chance.

Just my opinion, but one gleaned from 4 decades of Bauhaus (Wiemar) training, handed down from generation to generation in the European Guild tradition since the 14th century. Master to Apprentice. Don't believe for a minute that there aren't some good folks at VW that still hold tradition and craftsmanship in mind. It is unfortunate when others in the company cut away at this core philosophy.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:01 am    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

What's mind blowing to me is the lack of accountability (yet again) in that the top management of VW is not going to jail for a blatant criminal act. How many times have we seen this? CEO's knowingly cheating, stealing, manipulating and then resigning when they are caught w/a HUGE golden parachute of millions and a smile on their face.

The key management of VW that signed off on this software should all be tried in court and then do serious jail time.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:50 am    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Enjoyed the article.

It reminded me of an Engineer friend who worked for Baer, making HVAC systems for trucks. It was a Germany-based company with a US-based office. He's a brilliant designer, and had a lot of novel ideas for duct geometry and construction using airflow dynamic analysis and sound manufacturing techniques. Ultimately, the Germany-based Engineering folks stymied his ideas and innovations through pure arrogance. No American Engineer was going to drive the design direction.

They had much better ideas, of course. Think Vanagon HVAC.

I had a 1966 Beetle, and later a 1998 New Beetle. Two completely different cars, sharing only an outward design flavor. I long for a simple steel dashboard car with the simplest of controls and accouterments, with a similarly simple price. Like the old Beetle or the '70's Jeep.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 8:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

I drove a bus once, it was okay.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:36 am    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

Gnarlodious wrote:
Descriptors like “uniquely German mindset” are phrases that Americans understand. And I hate to be the one to say it, but the engineers that replaced the Vanagon with the Eurovan are not the postwar Germans who were humbled by the Nazi atrocities and American defeat. The insinuation of the story is that these VW Germans had regressed to the usual arrogant attributes of the prewar era, being a generation removed from that embarrassment. The Beetle, the Type 2, Rabbit and Vanagon were all sensible modest vehicles that Americans loved. Its as if to say that the “corporate culture of cheating” is the New Fascism. A slightly kinder facsism than Germany showed us in the past. I suppose we should be grateful for that.


Lol, I mean really.
It's a German automotive forum problem. I've seen it on more than just VW websites. The veiled blackness of the past just can't be scrubbed off the mindset. Just hope it doesn't get on you.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:40 am    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

I just find this a little hard to believe....not saying it's not true, but hard to believe.

"Put simply, the software in the German cars could detect when the car was in the shop for an emissions test—or in a regulator’s lab. On sensing this the computers adjusted the exhaust settings so that the emissions fell within the permitted range. Once the car returned to the road the engine reverted to its dirty normal. This is known as a defeat device."
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:55 am    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

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I just find this a little hard to believe....not saying it's not true, but hard to believe.

"Put simply, the software in the German cars could detect when the car was in the shop for an emissions test—or in a regulator’s lab. On sensing this the computers adjusted the exhaust settings so that the emissions fell within the permitted range. Once the car returned to the road the engine reverted to its dirty normal. This is known as a defeat device."


There's an entire thread on this already. And it's not hard to believe if you actually think. New cars have all sorts of sensors.

So let's see. Drive wheels are turning but the other wheels aren't. Computer isn't stupid. It knows the car can't possibly be on the road as all 4 wheels aren't turning. Car also knows there is ZERO steering input being made. So with that info the car goes in to defeat mode. Pretty simple actually.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 9:00 am    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

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I just find this a little hard to believe....not saying it's not true, but hard to believe.

"Put simply, the software in the German cars could detect when the car was in the shop for an emissions test—or in a regulator’s lab. On sensing this the computers adjusted the exhaust settings so that the emissions fell within the permitted range. Once the car returned to the road the engine reverted to its dirty normal. This is known as a defeat device."


There's an entire thread on this already. And it's not hard to believe if you actually think. New cars have all sorts of sensors.

So let's see. Drive wheels are turning but the other wheels aren't. Computer isn't stupid. It knows the car can't possibly be on the road as all 4 wheels aren't turning. Car also knows there is ZERO steering input being made. So with that info the car goes in to defeat mode. Pretty simple actually.


actually its called "Limp Home Mode"
I played with a mercedes sprinter recently, what a piece of garbage, and they are all like that. I'm so over the german car superiority thing its redonkulas.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:47 am    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

I'm naïve when it comes to these things.

Just can't imaging being in the room when this is first suggested. But, I guess the person that came up with the idea was around a group of folks that were like-minded.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 9:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Why we never got a New VW Bus Reply with quote

bigdog1962 wrote:
I just find this a little hard to believe....not saying it's not true, but hard to believe.

"Put simply, the software in the German cars could detect when the car was in the shop for an emissions test—or in a regulator’s lab. On sensing this the computers adjusted the exhaust settings so that the emissions fell within the permitted range. Once the car returned to the road the engine reverted to its dirty normal. This is known as a defeat device."


Actually the ECM detects a OBD reader when it is plugged into the car's harness and re-adjust it's emissions.
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