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I read somewhere that it was called Mangusta because it eats the Cobra ;-)
Fun-facts:
- The rear tyres of the Mangusta are larger than the front ones.
- It was in Kill Bill
- Engine hoods open to the left and right, but were quite useless, because for most work on the motor you had to remove it from below.
Ha! Like Suzuki's Hayabusa, the Japanese for 'peregrine falcon', so named because it was designed to be a [Honda] Blackbird killer!
If my memory is not confused, I'm rather sure that there was no Viper while there was a Mangusta.
And I'm afraid it's also highly unlikely that a Tiger would kill an Impala...the first being an Asian animal, and the other an African one.
Ha! Excellent work! :)
I bet a Bluebird does beat a Beetle though: they were awful! :)
A Beetle is cute, a Bluebird is... well... different...
Whatever you say brah.
I'm quite the VAG fanatic, what does that make me? :-?
Quite. I drove one in New Zealand for a couple of weeks. And even though it was an automatic ( I hate automatics), it was a decent and comfortable car, with a 'turbo'button to get me uphill at a decent speed.
Now I've never sat in a Beetle, but the originals were famous here for letting people freeze their legs off in winter. I wouldn't call it a horrid design, it did what it was supposed to do. And there's quite a few decades between the two. The new beetle doesn't count.
My only Beetle ever (from 1976 until 1979, and also my first car) looked like this, minus the sun shade over the windshield:
It was a 1971 VW 1302, "shantung yellow", with 44 HP and a relatively voracious appetite for gasoline (12 liters per 100 km equalling about 20 MPG). And yes, of course the heater failed in winter and could not be turned off in summer sometimes. Still loved it while it lasted.
They tried to update it a few times (e.g. by adding an extra defroster) but it never really worked as it should.
And I've always wondered what people did without a heated rear window... :-?
Which was an extra :-)
Lovely!
Someone who likes VWs and Audis. I had an Audi myself; lovely thing.
If you mean the Nazi thing, well they were designed for Nazis. Quite a sinister car, all in all.
(Come to think of it, I'd probably prefer the Triumph Sprite in the background...)
We had the DKW until it sort of conked out on the 1964 summer trip to Bavaria. Then came the Opel Rekord P2. But that's another story.
Were they called Sprites where you are? They were TR2s in the U.K.
I tried to google the one in the picture before posting and seemed to have found some place where it was identified as a Sprite - although I know it should be accompanied by "Austin-Healey" and not Triumph...which seems to be the name applied between the frogeyes.
You may be right with the TR2, but I'd say it's likely to be a TR3 since that one had the brand name in that place. Anyway, it wasn't really central to my post, so I felt I didn't have to research that perfectly.
As for DKW, it was a German car brand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKW) which was originally part of Auto-Union, as was Audi along with two others (hence the four rings in the logo). When I was a young kid in the late 50s and early 60s, they were still quite ubiquitous. Even then, I realised they were something special because of the three-cylinder two-stroke engine (like our family car had too). DKW also had a production site at Zwickau in Saxony (East Germany), which became the nucleus of the East German car production of Wartburgs and Trabants...sticking to that three-cylinder two-stroke principle until shortly before the wall fell when they started buying regular VW engines.
Oh sure; I wasn’t trying to catch you out or anything, I was just curious if that’s what it was called there. There are all sorts of funny name changes- as we saw with someone mentioning the VW Rabbit above! :)
The F102 would eventually become the Audi F103, the very first new Audi since 1938.
On the other hand, VW decided to rename the third-generation Jetta (the three-box version of the Golf/Rabbit) "Vento" over here (but not in the US), and "Bora" for the Golf IV companion. The reason was that the Jetta had lousy sales over here and was quickly identified as something that only octogenarians would voluntarily drive, let alone buy (the people that would drive a DAF 20 years earlier). They returned to Jetta for the Golf V but since the seventh generation it is not even available in Europe any more.
One VW I always wanted was the SP2: that was supercool! But sadly they never sold anywhere near here!
Not exactly a sports car, but an improvement over the original (and far more successful) Karmann-Ghia Type 14, with its Beetle roots regarding chassis and engine (several of those in the background here).
My father apparently had 3 in a row, of which I only knew the 66 (I wasn't born yet for the older models).