[LAC] VWs with AWD?

[Rave Racer]

    Where are these cars?  Are they already in Europe?  I haven't seen a VR6
beetle that wasn't custom, or a VR6 TT.  I knew the 1.8T had been done in
the TT obviously.  Of course there's that company in BC Canada that does the
conversion of a TT Quattro into whatever A4 VAG you want, but that's not
factory.  I didn't even know the Jetta wagon was ready yet.  Tell me this is
all undercover in Europe and it's not that I'm just really really uninformed
and slow.
    Also, which AWD system was the Synchro?  Was that more of a Torsen
system or was it the one from the 4000Q?

    You are probably right about the 1.8T being more up to the challenge of
pulling a 4WD system.  It's cheaper and easier to increase the power of the
1.8T without getting into complicated engine rebuilds like would be
neccesary with the VR6 to get a dramatic increase in HP.

       Rave Racer
'89 Jetta 1.8L 16V GTX
 http://www.vwot.org/members/Pete.html
'87 Audi 4000 Quattro Sedan
 http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
'72 Triumph GT6
 http://motorcities.com/contents/01I3H011116682.html
'83 Toyota Tercel (yoda)     Possible future Sandrail donor...  Maybe

----- Original Message -----
From: TM <t44tq at mindspring.com>
To: 'Rave Racer' <Ravewar at rogers.com>; 'Audi Quattro' <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: [LAC] VWs with AWD?


Except for the fact that they've already developed both a VR6 Audi TT
and a VR6 New Beetle, both using Haldex AWD, so the development work
has been done.

A Jetta VR6 4Motion would be so slow that it wouldn't be worth it, IMHO-
the 180hp 1.8T is the way to go now.

I think we'll see a 4Motion Jetta Wagon first.

Taka