RE: New Passat

[Peter Henriksen <peterhe@microsoft.com>]

I had no idea - what's the difference(s) between Syncro and quattro
anyway?
- peter, peterhe@microsoft.com
  issaquah, wa, usa
  91 200qw (ufo brakes, no sports seats, std. head lights)
  94 acura legend gs
  80 mazda 626

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>From: 	ti@bazooka.amb.org[SMTP:ti@bazooka.amb.org]
>Sent: 	Thursday, May 09, 1996 3:06 PM
>To: 	Peter Henriksen
>Cc: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: New Passat
>
>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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