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Re: [non-Scirocco] VR6 & VW



FWIW, In the UK and in Germany you can get a Sharan (van) with the VR6.

Mark . . .   (THINK VW)
Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
Scirocco 1981 S (working on this)

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:30:11 -0500 (EST) Baddour Kareem E
<6keb1@qlink.queensu.ca> writes:
>While the VR6 is indeed alive and kicking,
>(I was one of the VR6 doom-sayers, so I was wrong)
>it's interesting to note that not ONE SINGLE 1999 MODEL
>right now in europe has the VR6. THe 1.8T and VR5 has 
>replaced the VR6 there (unless they are going to put in 
>on the 4-motion Golf). The VR6 it seems has become a 
>strictly north american engine..makes sense, seeing 
>our gas prices are astronomically low, so we can 
>afford to guzzle gas to our hearts content and 
>deplete the oil reserves of the world..Maybe when
>the oil prices go up or the oil is depleted, we'll 
>see the end of this overconsumption trend and the 
>SUV's and lard-bucket VWs will be replaced with 
>light sport-coupes once again. Here's dreaming 
>to a return of a sub 2400lb VW in North 
>America. 
>
>Kareem, 
>            
>On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Mark A Peele wrote:
>
>> This should squash the rumours that VW was dropping the (fabulous) 
>VR6:
>> 
>> I am reading the Nov 16, 1998 Autoweek - they reviewed the new Jetta
>> which in the test car featured . . . guess what? A VR6
>> 
>> They discussed at length which models would feature what engines 
>(not
>> just the GLX, but also the GLS at under $20K).
>> 
>> I guess I'm bored . . . 
>> 
>> Mark . . .   (THINK VW)
>> Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
>> Scirocco 1981 S (working on this)
>> 
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