Re: New Passat

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Ti Kan say:

> 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.

Of course, we could all set our way-back machines to the early
1970's, when the Audi Fox wagon and the VW Dasher wagon were
abslutely identical, except for the badge on the grill and the
sticker price on the window.

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