[LAC] VWs with AWD?

[Larry C Leung]

The potential VR6 TT was just shown in last week's AutoWeek.

As for the Syncro (only one sold under that name in the US was the
Quantum, nee Passat/Santana), it was identical to Quattro 1, right out of
a 4KQ. All of the tranverse engine VW apps were and are Haldex.

LL - NY

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:58:32 -0500 "Rave Racer" <Ravewar at rogers.com>
writes:
>
>    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
>
>