[V8] '77 Scirocco: nope you can run but you can't hide!!!

[Roger Woodbury]

Yup.  Bring-a-Trailer is on my list of things to do with my first cup o' joe
in the morning.   Some days are better than others, but the Scirocco lit me
up.  My '77 Scirocco was the first post-divorce car that I owned. I used it
for business as my daily driver on Cape Cod that first year, and it was the
car that I had when I first moved to Maine.  I might still have that car
were it not for needing an F150 for work. I could only afford one, so the
Scirocco went away.

I really, really liked that car and would much prefer having another one to
almost anything else on the road now.  For that matter I have often thought
about getting another Rabbit to use, at least as a three season car here in
rural Maine.  

When I read articles such as the one I read this morning about the new
active head restraints that Johnson Controls is developing to end whiplash,
I think more and more longingly about that first Scirocco and the numerous
gas and diesel Rabbits that I have had since.  Those cars were simple,
rugged and reliable with minimal care.  Tires were cheap, and they would go
anywhere in any weather.  When they start to talk about additional sensors
in the seat backs that will automatically push the headrest into better
position in 27.3456665473 mininanofractions of a second, it just makes me
tired and want to go for a very long walk.

And Toyota cannot find one single thing wrong with their electronics, which
only means that they are reading the same garbage coming out that went in.
Maybe if they tested their cars more thoroughly in the real world, they
would find real problems.  I wonder what those snarky headrests are going to
do once a grain of dust gets into the one of those mininanofractions of a
second reacting sensors?  

Oh!  I know!  I can see the headline now:  "Suit filed by family of driver
who was decapitated by runaway head restraint!"

Terrific!

Roger

On the whole, I'll keep my V8!