"otomobil" Review...: August 2019
Interesting Observation in Saigon. I just came back from Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) yesterday (17 August). Interesting observation. First observation: Left Hand Drive vehicles. Second Observation: Saigon's Infested with Kapcais and Scooters. Lots and lots of them. Next observation, 70/100 (70%) vehicles there were Toyota OR Lexus. 50% were either MPV or SUV. Heck, most of their taxis were either Toyota Vios OR Innova MPV. Toyota Vios, Innova, Hiace, Fortuner, Altis, Camry, Sienna MPV, Highlander. ABOVE AND BELOW: 5 Toyotas and 7 Toyotas in a ROW Respectively. SAIGON'S Best Selling Vehicle: Toyota INNOVA. Followed by Toyota (YAWN!) Vios. ABOVE: NEW TOYOTA HIGHLANDER. ABOVE: LEXUS NEW ES330. ABOVE: SAIGON'S MOST POPULAR CAR ACCESSORIES. Above: Hyundai i10, Below: Hyundai i30 Wagon. Above: Honda Odyssey US 3.8 V6. HYUNDAI VERACRUZ SUV 3.8 V6, 7 seater. Nissan (only seen 5 Nissans in Saigon in my 3 days/3 nights stay. Volvo, Chrysler/Jeep (passed their showroom but hardly see any on the road), HUMMER, Volkswagen. I flipped thru AUTOCAR ASEAN Vietnam and glanced thru their vehicle price lists. Most popular MPV: Innova Basic costs the Same as above. Honda Civic 2.0 IVTEC costs RM90,000. Also, ONLY CKD Car's Cheap. Korean cars were cheap too. Only CBU Premium Costs as much as Malaysia. Eg. BMW, Audi, Porsche, Volvo, Mercedes Benz. Some sort of LUXURY TAX. Well, there's a saying, a picture's worth 1000 words. Saigon's LARGEST Wet Market. An Dong Plaza. Saigon's version of Sungai Wang plaza. Famous ICE CREAM PARLOUR. Traditional Vietnamese Kuih Shop. Saigon WAR Memorial Museum. NO AIRCOND. SAUNA Inside. Above: Many names changes of Saigon. As seen in the War Museum. VINCOM Centre. Pavilion equivalent of Saigon. PHO 2000. Famous Vietnamese FULLY Air Cond Restaurant. SAIGON POST OFFICE. Estd. CLOUDS. Taken from AirAsia Airbus A320's window. That's all folks, hope you enjoy this PAINSTAKINGLY Created Blog entry. Took me 2 hours to upload and draft this blog entry. An Original Otoreview's production. Jeff Lim's original work.
It is neither, but there are similarities. The prototype body was manufactured in Porsche's own Stuttgart Body Works with later versions coming from the Karmann coachworks. The shell had no doors and high sills, passenger needed to climb over them to enter and exit the vehicle. The 597 was visually similar to the earlier Kuebelwagen, and the body was made of stamped steel with heavy embossing for extra rigidity, Radios, lights, and other military equipment were powered by two 12-volt batteries and a dynamo. A little-known fact about the 597 is that the first four cars were fully amphibious, complete with a folding propeller much like the WW II Schwimmwagen. These 597's are therefore the only Porsches to come from the factory with canoe paddles as original accessories! The remaining cars were not amphibious, but could ford deep water using special equipment. Suspension of the 597 was contemporary to VWs and Porsches of the time, modified to suit the purpose of the vehicle. Trailing arms with transverse torsion bars were used up front, with a chassis-mounted differential and half-shafts (with four universal joints) to drive the front wheels.
Power for the Jagdwagen came from a detuned 356A engine producing 55 hp with a displacement of 1488cc (in late 1955 it was increased to 1582 cc) located in the rear of the car. Together with a vehicle weight of 990 kilograms a maximum speed of around 100 kilometer per hour could be achieved. The transmission was a 5-speed manual gear box. Unlike the Kubelwagen, the driver could engage or disengage the front wheel drive of the Jagdwagen on the fly from his driving seat, via a "dog-clutch" at the front on the driveshaft. Even though Porsche had designed man military vehicles, this was the first time the company was also prepared to build its own designs for a military vehicle. Porsche tried to recover some of its substantial investment in the car by offering the Jagdwagen to the public. There wasn't another car like this being sold anywhere in Europe, and so there was no real customer base to advertise to. Production of the 597 quietly expired in 1958 after just a mere 71 units had been produced. Today it seems like a great tragedy that at least a few more Jagdwages weren't made, because if any one car could illustrate how diverse the Porsche Company really is, then that car would probaby be the Type 597 Jagdwagen. If the rugged little 597 had gone into large-scale production, the Porsche company might be as well known today for its off road vehicles as it is for its sports cars!
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