Re: New Passat

[ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan)]

Peter Henriksen writes:
> Just saw in the new Automobile magazine that the '97 (according to them
> - they only had an artist's rendering) Passat will have a longtitudinal
> engine with ***quattro*** available! Yes, not synchro - quattro.
> 
> What was that thread about VW and Audi platforms getting mighty
> intimate?

Well this is nothing new... The previous generation Passat (which we know
as the Quantum in the U.S.) was based on the Audi 4000 platform, and
the Quantum Syncro was really a 4000 quattro underneath.  Deja vu.

-Ti
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