Reckless Driver Goes Bananas
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 • Filed under Cars
Some really twisted mad man invented the VW Bug. It’s a car for very low income people that’s ugly, uncomfortable, sluggish and useless. It also didn’t help that the guy was probably a Nazi.
But one guy tried to pull off a police pursuit in one anyway, according to the Denver Post.
And he managed to get the little sucker moving faster than “turtle stuck in a bear trap” speed, which is an actual measurement on the Bug’s spedometer.
One deputy clocked him going 115 mph. He had to have been going downhill…with the wind…after being launched from a cannon…in the vacuum of space.
The deputy even abandoned the pursuit when he couldn’t catch up to him. So how did the guy get caught? The car crashed. Well, it’s good to know the VW Bug’s braking system by ramming into the heaviest concrete thing you can find still works.
Ken Molloy says: September 5th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen, and was way, way, ahead of his time in 1934.
I took a slide of a 1938 VW at the 1975 Frankfurt Auto Show. It looked very much like the 1958 VW which was our very first new car.
Volkswagens were easy to “soup up”. A Porsche engine would bolt right in place without even needing an adapter.
However, after 1960, adapters appeared on the market to install a Corvair 6-cylinder engine into a VW. If you ever compared the cross section of the 6-cylinder Corvair engine with the cross section of the VW engine, it was obviously copied from the VW.
In stock, showroom condition, the 36hp VW would only go 62mph (100kph), even if you held the pedal flat on the floor all day. But it would consistently give 32-33mpg all day, too.
Adding dual carburetors would raise the top speed to 65mph, and with a different camshaft, different cylinder heads, and 4 carburetors, the VW engine could be modified to produce more than 100-120hp. Then it would really run!
I’d love to have another VW beetle right now.
anonymous says: September 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Actually, I’m pretty sure Hitler suggested the idea of a car that looked like a beetle. He may not have designed it, but it was his idea.
Anonymous says: September 26th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Considering the Holocaust, why would you post this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Xatao says: September 29th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Hitler gave it an air cooled engine so it could get over the alps