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I’ll start you off a N/A diesel?


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Bub's van? I know C15s stopped about the same time.
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My 06 Citroen Dispatch is an N/A diesel and it shows !!!!It will do 80 but takes about 4 miles of flat motorway to get there.
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And the last car supplied with an 8 track? Rostyles, Electric aerial? Vinyl roof?


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I don't know if an 8 track was ever supplied, usually a dealer fitted accessory? I'm sure the 1978 Renault Boutique accessory brochure lists all those items although of course the Rossies would be a 3 stud frog looky-like. Probably something Yank for the vinyl top and German for the lecky aerial.....
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panhard65 wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:11 pm My 06 Citroen Dispatch is an N/A diesel and it shows !!!!It will do 80 but takes about 4 miles of flat motorway to get there.
Still using dw8 in the mid 2000s? I thought the facelift was end of 2005 and had the 1.6 hdi. Is yours a quite late early model? The dispatch is a fair size bigger than the escort too and not much more power. The escort is slow but once up to speed it will hold it.
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Central Throtle pedal. LHD BMC FG trucks had them until in the mid '60's they squeezed a pedal slightly to the right of the brake. The footwell is just too narrow to get 3 pedals in, on the right hooker there was enough space.
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My last s70 t-5 had an electric aerial. That was a '98.
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Bangernomics wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:26 pm And the last car supplied with an 8 track? Rostyles, Electric aerial? Vinyl roof?


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I’d say Cavalier MK1 for Rostyles, and possibly vinyl roof . Ford stopped putting Rosryles on Cortinas after about 73/74, same with Capris, definitely by the time the Mk2 came out. Avengers, Hunters, Chevette, Viva and Magnums had Rostyles and vinyls until the end, but I think the Cavalier outlived them all.

I once drove a 2004 Octavia non turbo diesel, it was interesting.

I’ve never heard of any car having a factory fitted8 track, not saying there weren’t any.
The Jaguar XK , had an electric aerial in MK1 guise. They ran until 2004ish.

The cop out answer to a lot of these questions is a commercial or Land Rover Defender or something from a backward country - like America.
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Brochure flickage indicates that the vinyl roof probably died out indeed in America - 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood seems to be the latest, although that might be because I don't have/want brochures for anything newer than that.
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