OT: DOS PCs

Download DOSbox ( a DOS emulator) for Windows and run it under that?

Mike P

You and me both, but Dad is stubborn. "Look, if you're going to waste money on a Passat CC, get a proper engined one, don't opt for the pikey four cylinder diesel." And what does he do?!

Not a lot of choice, really - 4 pot diesel, 4-pot petrol or the hugely expensive and thirsty VR6.

I hope he's gone for the 170. The 170 CR lump is very good, especially with DSG.

I love the CC, but they should have made more effort with the dash to make it feel a bit more special inside.

The four pot petrols are pretty good and for their mileage (18,000 in 30 months) make more sense than the diesels.

Of course not; went for the 140 with DSG.

My stepmother is all about how brilliant VW are despite the mess their last car was (basically it never worked properly) and delight in telling me how wonderful the new one is.

It looks oddly proportioned from some aspects and downright funt ugly from others. It's a mess of miss-matched curves, gopping chrome, it sits too high at the back, it has too much orange indicator showing at the front and as you say, the dash is as tepid as anything else from the VW stable.

Worse I'm going to get all the blah-blah-common rail-blah-blah-18" wheels-blah-blah dynamic chassis this-blah-blah-VW are the best *puke* every time we see them for the next six months, which Charlie already finds amusing... :)

Ahhh, in that case, 2.0T-FSI is the only way forward.

At least it's DSG. And the CRs are very good.

Hmmmm, I think it's the car the B6 Passat should have been from the start. The dash is perfectly OK for a large family / middle management type car, but it's not special enough if you're going to market the car as something special.

Well, the chassis changes are supposed to have improved a car that already drives very well.

I think you mean, "finally class competitive after lagging for a few years" heh.

It's reckoned to be called a niche product by my buddy in a VW dealer for people who are happy to pay a few grand more for a lowered, four-seat-only Passat. In other words, it's a clever way to extract more money from the Golf platform.

It drives okay, but it isn't a sports car, which is how the GT CR 140 DSG will be touted by my folks...

Now the Golf platform has the Golf, the lardy Golf, the long wagon Golf, the long saloon Golf, the long wagon Golf and the pimped and long Golf all wearing VW badges...

Bollocks - nothing wrong with the PDs. They were a lot more robust than a CR in many ways. Just a shame they had a few issues with turbo seals if you didn't check the oil regularly.

I found the PD was a lot more flexible than most CR lumps.

The new VAG CRs have successfully blended the flexibility of the PDs with the more rev-happy nature of a CR.

At least, that was my impression from the A4 I tried with the CR lump.

Although my favourite was the Passat TDI-170 PD DSG.

Whilst this is true, I still think they should have launched the CC as the mainstream Passat, but with the normal Passat bench seat, IYSWIM.

It's actually a more practical car - the boot of the CC is significantly bigger, with the seats up, than the standard car.

Heh.

Well, GM had the Vectra, the smaller Vectra with a posh badge, the bigger Vectra with a posh badge.... and that's just the European models, I'm sure it was used as a platform for a number of Merkin cars and will form the basis of a few Daeworolets, too.

I was going to suggest VMWare and DOS 6.22....

The correct newsgroup would be an excellent start. I take it you do have a decent newsfeed including computer groups, maybe a web browser and Google? Why be such an idiot as to post off topic posts when you know they are off topic and have nothing to do with the group you are in? I can never work out why people such as yourself appear to be so genuinely thick! Are you one of the latest generation of completely helpless school leavers that can't do a thing for themselves?

Who he ?......

Oh look, it's Ian again. Do be a nice chap and f*ck off..

Mike P

Don't bother with an old PC, try this:

Works a treat

Didn't BMW do this for a while too?

Derv, you're old enough to know better. People do not want to know your opinion on whatever widget they're buying unless they ask you for it. Giving it to them is a good way to waste your breath and make them think you're a bit of a know it all...

Virtualbox is free.

So is VMWare server, these days.

LOL; I didn't give them my opinion on the CC, that was my comment to Charlie.

Derv Senior and I are very much alike. I listen to him as much as he listens to me about cars. ;)

Yeah, didn't the I6s in the E39 onwards do this? Easy to spot - most owners have one clean tailpipe and one sooty tail pipe... :)