How plentiful are Golf/Jetta synchros?

[Ti Kan]

David.Ullrich at ferguson.com writes:
> I question whether the Gen1/2 Passat is really a stretched A platform. Acco=
> rding to everything I've read on the cars and according to the VWVortex sit=
> e=2E..they were indeed B3/B4 Passats. Plus just look at them, they look lik=
> e identical twins to the Audi 80/90.

In global-speak we should call them the Gen-3 Passat.  Anyway,
they are emphatically *not* B-platform based.  They borrow heavily
from the A2-platform VW Golf/Jetta/Corrado (with their transverse engine
layout and suspension design details), and is indeed a lengthened
A platform.  Calling them 'B3/B4' Passat is technically incorrect, but
people do it because all other generations of Passats are B-platform
based, so it sort of stuck.

Looking at exterior sheetmetal can be quite deceiving.

-Ti
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