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I have cash burning a hole in my pocket and want a New Beetle badly, and have looked at several. Today I test drove a 2000 turbo, fully loaded w/50,000 miles. I think something was wrong with the car because it had absolutely no pick up! I realize that being an automatic would slow it down somewhat, but man this thing was slow! I told the owner my thoughts on the subject and he seemed to think the car needed a tune up. What do you guys think? I'm no stranger to volkswagen, especially the 1.8, but do you think something as simple as a tune-up would solve this cars apparent lack of get up and go? Also there was a sound like a shop vac under the hood for a little less than a minute, then it stopped, what was that? I have the Turbo "bug" and dont want to chicken out...
I have cash burning a hole in my pocket and want a New Beetle badly, and have looked at several. Today I test drove a 2000 turbo, fully loaded w/50,000 miles. I think something was wrong with the car because it had absolutely no pick up! I realize that being an automatic would slow it down somewhat, but man this thing was slow! I told the owner my thoughts on the subject and he seemed to think the car needed a tune up. What do you guys think? I'm no stranger to volkswagen, especially the 1.8, but do you think something as simple as a tune-up would solve this cars apparent lack of get up and go? Also there was a sound like a shop vac under the hood for a little less than a minute, then it stopped, what was that? I have the Turbo "bug" and dont want to chicken out...