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Second rental car I've driven:
Well I still agree with the fact that the front of recent Peugeot is too big.
On the 407 Coupé it is worse
On the 407 Coupé it is worse
In German they call sedans limousines if i'm right, hence why he said that, Toyota Tercel Sedan 
Ah, at mm's comments I recognize, that I've also driven some rental transporters and vans for transportations and relocations. I'm glad, that I still have the old (pre 1999) drivers license, so I'm allowed to drive trucks up to 7.5 tons max.weight. Nowadays it's -for all European- only 3.5 tons.
So once I drove such a 7.5 tons Iveco-truck, the other rental transporters were smaller.
In 1996, when my sister had moved to her new university-town, I was really shocked about the new TDI-technology. We got as a rental van a brand new Fiat Ducato Diesel (with the rounded nose). I drove it full throttle on the Autobahn -as I've done it 5-6 years before with my Bundeswehr-VW T3 Transporters, full throttle to avoid blocading the street. After a while, I was going down a hill, I watched the tachometer: 190 km/h !!
I was totally shocked, because except the very lame Army-VW's I had no Diesel-car-experience before.
Some years later, when we have moved by ourselves and we had to clear off the houses of my recently died gantmother, I drove two Mercedes Sprinter.
For other opportunities, mainly picking up bigger stocks of K 70-parts somewhere else, I got older VW Transporters from friends, T3's and first gen LT's.
If you have (like me) your main transporter-experiences with VW T2, T3 and early LT's, you can have a typical manner by getting out of these cars - and you shall remember it, when you sit in annother transporter to avoid falling on your nose!
When you are getting off a VW Bus, you put your hand on the wheel-arch directly beside the seat, push up your body and turn to the side. It's an automatism after using these vehicles for a while. Once I made this moving, when I sat in a Sprinter - and felt slapstick-like out of the van, because at that model there is no wheel-arch beside the seat.
So once I drove such a 7.5 tons Iveco-truck, the other rental transporters were smaller.
In 1996, when my sister had moved to her new university-town, I was really shocked about the new TDI-technology. We got as a rental van a brand new Fiat Ducato Diesel (with the rounded nose). I drove it full throttle on the Autobahn -as I've done it 5-6 years before with my Bundeswehr-VW T3 Transporters, full throttle to avoid blocading the street. After a while, I was going down a hill, I watched the tachometer: 190 km/h !!
I was totally shocked, because except the very lame Army-VW's I had no Diesel-car-experience before.
Some years later, when we have moved by ourselves and we had to clear off the houses of my recently died gantmother, I drove two Mercedes Sprinter.
For other opportunities, mainly picking up bigger stocks of K 70-parts somewhere else, I got older VW Transporters from friends, T3's and first gen LT's.
If you have (like me) your main transporter-experiences with VW T2, T3 and early LT's, you can have a typical manner by getting out of these cars - and you shall remember it, when you sit in annother transporter to avoid falling on your nose!
When you are getting off a VW Bus, you put your hand on the wheel-arch directly beside the seat, push up your body and turn to the side. It's an automatism after using these vehicles for a while. Once I made this moving, when I sat in a Sprinter - and felt slapstick-like out of the van, because at that model there is no wheel-arch beside the seat.
One pic I've found, the others are still non-digital. From February 2008. Quite new, just 7000 mls on the clock, but we'd been very irritated, that by passing the Appalachians (the lower ones, in Pennsylvania), the engine lost power and the valves started to jingeling. 
Also visible: my father-in-law and me.
Also visible: my father-in-law and me.
Denver/CO, July 1993 - it was a Chrysler Saratoga!
Corfu/Greece, September 1994:
Corfu, too. Specially posted for TonkaTRACKER
Corfu/Greece, September 1994:
Corfu, too. Specially posted for TonkaTRACKER
From my autodriveway-trip across the USA, also in July 1993:
Denver/CO - Cape Girardeau/MO:
St.Louis - Houston:
In the Houstin-office I'd been too late. The Mercedes 500 SE, destination Beverly Hills, went away shortly before
Houston - Sacramento:
The location in the background is the legendary VW-scrapyard in Alamogordo/NM
San Francisco - St Paul/MN:
Minneapolis - Philadelphia:
Denver/CO - Cape Girardeau/MO:
St.Louis - Houston:
In the Houstin-office I'd been too late. The Mercedes 500 SE, destination Beverly Hills, went away shortly before
Houston - Sacramento:
The location in the background is the legendary VW-scrapyard in Alamogordo/NM
San Francisco - St Paul/MN:
Minneapolis - Philadelphia:
