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Yeah, look at the resale values of those Fiat 500's.
Fast forward to 2014... when I picked up a rental VW in Amsterdam, I could NOT take the car into Italy, unless I wanted to pay a ridiculous insurance fee for the rental... Seems there is a huge problem with theft of cars in that country, the rental car companies charge you insurance rates while driving into Italy to discourage use in the country. One other thing, the post office in Italy is also rife with theft... buy some stuff on Ebay, and Italy is one country vendors refuse to ship to, among the European Nations.
Welcome to 2014... nothing has changed in Italy, it has just gotten worse.
1974, I'd have been sporting a Bosch 009 centrifugal advance, and a Zenith on my 67 Beetle. Didn't have anything to tow until 1988 when I bought a Ford F250 with the 7.3 Navistar. The Stanadyne injector pump was junk on that too, as was the whole Ford front end, which ate ball joints and inner and outer tie rods at ridiculous rates.
That was the first, and last American vehicle that I'll ever own. Pure money pit, beyond any VW or Audi diesel that I've also owned. Garbage engineering, front windshield would crack from cab flex, just pulling up into a driveway. Oh, and let's talks about quality of paint.... white paint peeling off in 5 years, with some garbage black primer underneath, whole hood and top of cab.
Disenchanted with American Quality on US trucks, you bet I am.
Fast forward to 2014... when I picked up a rental VW in Amsterdam, I could NOT take the car into Italy, unless I wanted to pay a ridiculous insurance fee for the rental... Seems there is a huge problem with theft of cars in that country, the rental car companies charge you insurance rates while driving into Italy to discourage use in the country. One other thing, the post office in Italy is also rife with theft... buy some stuff on Ebay, and Italy is one country vendors refuse to ship to, among the European Nations.
Welcome to 2014... nothing has changed in Italy, it has just gotten worse.
1974, I'd have been sporting a Bosch 009 centrifugal advance, and a Zenith on my 67 Beetle. Didn't have anything to tow until 1988 when I bought a Ford F250 with the 7.3 Navistar. The Stanadyne injector pump was junk on that too, as was the whole Ford front end, which ate ball joints and inner and outer tie rods at ridiculous rates.
That was the first, and last American vehicle that I'll ever own. Pure money pit, beyond any VW or Audi diesel that I've also owned. Garbage engineering, front windshield would crack from cab flex, just pulling up into a driveway. Oh, and let's talks about quality of paint.... white paint peeling off in 5 years, with some garbage black primer underneath, whole hood and top of cab.
Disenchanted with American Quality on US trucks, you bet I am.
