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Old 02-20-2009, 11:24 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sean T. View Post
Uhm there's a link in the video page...
Yep - they just posted it today, as foretold.

Looks like an updated version of Car & Driver magazine's "Crisis Fighter" ecomodding series from the 70's, eg. the Crisis Fighter Pinto ... except with a much bigger budget!

From the TG article:

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Step 1: We'll buy a 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit Diesel right here in New York City.

Step 2: We'll drive it across thousands of miles of frozen tundra to Regina, Saskatchewan, where CWS Tuning will skillfully replace the clattery old oil burner with a modern, computer-controlled, turbocharged VW TDI engine.

Step 3: We'll head south to sunny Southern California to thaw our bones and have UCLA aerodynamics professor John McNulty show us how to make a brick slippery.
This will be interesting. Thumbs-up, Top Gear.
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