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RE what Neil was saying about the original VW 1L - I remember reading the article where they described the prototype and how the chairman of VW drove it over 100km to a meeting. He didn't baby it, said it plugged right along at 110-120kph. That's about 75mph, not bad at all.

Of course he was probably getting buzzed big time by enormous BMWs tearing by on the German highways, but there's only so much you can accomplish when you're going to make this many sacrifices to economy.