[s-cars] NAC - 400 HP VW Beetle on Audi TT chassis

[Taka Mizutani]

No problem- I wasn't trying to be obnoxious, just thought maybe VW came out
with another limited edition that I never heard about.

They need to build that chop-top coupe based off the Beetle Cabrio, just put
in that 3.2L VR6 and it would be bad......

Taka


On 6/20/06, Robert Rossato <r0ssat0_987 at att.net> wrote:
>
>  It was the Beetle RSi that I was referring to, but for the life of me I
> couldn't remember the correct name this morning when I sent it out.  I knew
> it had the 3.2L VR6 so R32 was the only thing coming to mind, though I had
> a sneaking suspicion that it was wrong.  Ten minutes after I sent it out I
> remembered the proper name.  Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Bob
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Taka Mizutani [mailto:t44tqtro at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:22 PM
> *To:* Robert Rossato
> *Cc:* Emre Washburn; Kevin Campbell; audifans
> *Subject:* Re: [s-cars] NAC - 400 HP VW Beetle on Audi TT chassis
>
> I know about the Beetle Cup and the Beetle RSI, but have not heard of the
> R32 Beetle.
>
> TT, Beetle- it's not a Beetle chassis with a TT floorpan or whatever. All
> A4 chassis cars
> have a lot of interchangeable parts. Who is to say that it's not a Golf
> 4Motion floorpan?
>
> As far as conversions go, Bob is correct- no one is going to chop up an
> RSI just for an
> AWD conversion, so it is a lot more likely that the HPA Beetle uses either
> TT or Golf 4Motion
> AWD parts.
>
> Taka
>
> On 6/20/06, Robert Rossato <r0ssat0_987 at att.net> wrote:
> >
> > With the exception of the Europe only $50k Beetle R32, there are no AWD
> > Beetle chassis, so it is a TT chassis.  Or at least floorpan.
> >
>
>