On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:45:36 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:

The original VW bug was inexpensive to buy, and relatively inexpensive
to repair. That is hardly the same as being reliable.

Yeah, but how many cars come with a tool kit? Admittedly, the tool kit
wasn't much. It consisted of a cylinder with two socket ends (which fit
virtually every nut on the car), two screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, and a
metal rod used to turn the socket cylinder.

Early Toyotas all came with tool kits, and the "worst car sold in
Canada", the LADA, came with a FULL tool kit.
In general you needed it, and needed to know how to use it, if you
hoped to drive one.

A poor russian copy of a poor Italian design.
There's a video floating aroung (Guiness Book of Records folks) showing a
crew removing a VW engine, moving the engine four feet from the rear bumper,
reinstalling the engine, then driving the bug away. In one minute, four
seconds.