here<\/a>) I think is nice to know that with such a great vehicle I have plenty of possibilities that are just not possible with a normal car.<\/p>\nProblem is, people buy cars under the social pressure of “girls only go out with people with Porsche”, “if you drive a BMW you’re wealth”, “I got a baby then I need a SUV”, etc. etc.
\nThis happens in most social environment, but I’m lucky enough to live in a place, Amsterdam, where this is just not happening for different reasons.
\nPeople here are practical and move around with bicycles, by far the best way to get around the city.
\nGirls won’t complain if you arrive with an old bike, and your neighbor won’t laugh at you if you don’t have a car, or if you have an old Fiat Uno (btw, there still ARE Fiat Uno driving around).<\/p>\n
Well, look like I choose the right environment to don’t have the pressure to have an expensive car, but this is indeed also because if you live in the city, a car is not required at all.
\nIf you live in rural area, then the story is probably the same as in any other rural area around, and the logic of “big car, big house” will kick in.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we were talking about my new vehicle.
\nI love it.
\nIt has none of the fancy useless optional so important in modern cars: no electric windows, no A\/C, no ABS, no central lock, no remote control, no lights turning on automatically or parking sensors.
\nDamn, this is a van, not a luxury car!!<\/p>\n
It drives smooth and the 2.5 TDI engine is powerful enough to move 9 people around with a comfortable cruising speed of 120-130 Km\/h.
\nIf you argue that is not that fast, well I have a 260Km\/h motorbike so if I need speed I won’t definitively take the van! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Once I decided to buy a van, it took me 1 week to find the right one.<\/p>\n
I went bus-shopping in a couple of places, initially looking for a Mercedes Vito.
\nThe Vito is the van that offers the most car-alike driving experience, plus is Mercedes that would make my dad extremely proud of me.<\/p>\n
Vito’s turned out to be all too rusty and with too many KMs to take the risk… so I found this Volkswagen T4 that looked like the best surf-van ever \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
It was, according to the dealer, used as a school bus.<\/p>\n
I like to think that an old man drove this van for 11 years, taking the little kids around.
\nEvery now and then, a little kid would pee on the seat and would start crying.
\nOne day, the old man retired and had to abandon his loved school bus and the routine of the itinerary to drive every day.
\nAt that point, a young man got hired to replace the old man and as a first thing he asked for the old mini-bus to be replaced with a new model.<\/p>\n
I may be totally wrong, but I like to think that this is the history of my van before it became known as The Salsa Shuttle \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a>It’s something I was talking about since few weeks but still people didn’t took me seriously thinking I was kidding… so many people asked me “Why did you bought a van??”<\/p>\n