Tell me why I shouldn't get this https://bellingham.cr

Worst case scenario, you have a solid little project to work on. I say go for it. These rabbit trucks are getting harder and harder to get with Gen X eating them all up.

>>17202896
>Fun little project
The thing is it'll be my only car for college. I do live right next to a bus stop though so if I need to my student ID doubles as a free bus pass. When I'm at home in the summer my family has 2 extra cars so thats not a problem. The biggest thing is I need to drive it 300 miles to get to school in the fall, back for winter break, spring break, and summer. Would you get in that car to drive 300 miles and trust it? I feel like the answer is no. There's a couple ford focus svts in the area in the same price range that would be way more reliable and practical but I just love this little vw

>>17202920
It's definitely not the best thing you could buy as far as a tool for transportation goes, but if you take care of it and make sure it hasn't been abused, it will serve you well.

>>17202920
Go test drive it already, if it cruses nice buy it. A good running diesel will run fine all over the place for long distances for a long time, that aspect isn't exclusive to semi trucks or anything.

>>17202975
Ok I'll see about it.
Also, are airbags a meme? The road to my college is well known for being a "death trap" because a lot of idoits drive to fast and pass dangerously. I couple people die coming back to school every year. Since it doesn't have airbags am I going to die or am I fine?

>>17202920
Does your hometown happen to be Spokane?

>>17203100
No, I'm from Lynden(just north of Bellingham)
Are you from Spokane?

>>17203189
Not far from it. I was going to sell my 00 Civic soon for a bit less. Would rather pass it on to another /o/tist, but I guess that would be a pretty long drive for a car like that

>>17203189
I do have a lot of friends over in bham though, love the area

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Might be a good run about. Hello from Everett

>>17202874
Rebuild is quite possibly straight up a fucking lie,
unless they have reciepts and pictures they're literally bald face bulshitting to make their heavily used diesel look good.
also diesels expensive for a college kid imo i'd go for something efficient as fuck like a crx

>>17203083
It's not the airbags that matter here, if that thing crashes you have a significantly higher chance of dying since you are the crumple zone, as compared to a modern car. That being sid drive defensively and safely knowing your limits and you should be fine. There is a certain risk in driving old cars but most of those crashes are also probably caused by the drivers themselves. All in all depends on just how much of a priority absolute safety is to you.

>>17203083
Well, unless you are flooring it people will probably pass you often as those have very little power.

You'd be much safer in a modern vehicle....

>>17203083
you won't die.
>you will

Those have like 45-52 HP and 71-80 ft lbs torque.

Like what the FUCK?!!

OP, I hope you realize these are as slow as or slower than VW Beatles. Seriously, you could cause an accident pulling out of somewhere because you literally cant get up to speed in any reasonable amount of time.

Even the turbo variants are bad off but at least derivable to a certain point.

>>17203646
It's a great area but there's too many hippies in bham.
I wasn't planning on getting a civic. I was looking at a Ford focus svt though.
>>>17202874
>Rebuild is quite possibly straight up a fucking lie
I thought about this too. It seems to be really taken care of.
>also diesels expensive for a college kid
? Diesel is cheaper here and the rabbit Diesel is super efficient, like 45mpg on the highway

>>>17203083
>All in all depends on just how much of a priority absolute safety is to you.
It's not really me that it matters to. My mom is a worry wart and me not having airbags will just stress her out and I don't want her wording for 8 hours straight

http://jalopnik.com/263157/diesel-rabbit-pickup

Apparently not very useful as a truck.Turns out an already wheezing and anemic engine from the rabbit hatch isnt terrible useful for doing real work.

The malaise era is partially to blame for this and the malaise era is where this should have stayed.

That said, if you can turbo it and add another 40-50 HP it might be a lot better off.

But driving something like this on a "dangerous" road seems like asking for trouble.

I mean you wouldn't take a model T on the tail of the dragon right?

>>17203949
Ok I replied to some wrong people, sorry I'm on my phone.
Also, I'm aware of how underpowered it is. I guess it's just a dream that I shouldn't do huh?
Ford focus would probably be better. There's a couple svts in the same price range