new old car

May 25, 2023, 01:11:29 PM

not having driven a golf 1,
does not keep me from preferring a golf 2.

but with the golf 3, they might have lost
a certain edginess for sure
and maybe there are other points,
some people would have liked to be different.

after reading the new mini thread of @Eddypeck,
i thought about what it would be from scratch.

cause of the regulations,
a new car would have to have abs and an airbag,
but they would still allow us to have combustion engines for a while,
which might be fortunate, since an electric car could be a somewhat different concept.

would it be possible to even further reduce the electronics
of the mk2 ecu to analog or mechanical parts
and still stay within the actual emission limits ?

which modern engines are already there ?
is there one which is, easy to maintain,
simple and long lasting ?

like with the mk3 gearbox,
the shifting could be made more fluent,
but the gearbox should still be robust.

regarding the ordering, could there be a kit-car-option ?
everything including 3d-models cold be open-source, right ?

what would your ideas be ?

edit: adding reference to mini thread