Re: AutoWeek News

["Mark Radelow" <rpcprod@hotmail.com>]

Well it won't be based on the VR6, because VW no longer owns the VR6. It 
is now the property of Diamler Benz GMBH.

Mark Radelow
jetta.aosi.net - The VW Jetta Homepage

>To: gti-vr6@dev.tivoli.com (GTI-VR6 Mailing List)
>Subject: AutoWeek News
>Date: Fri, 01 Aug 97 07:17:45 GMT
>From: collinsk@pacbell.net (Kevin Collins)
>
>Hey, anybody else get their new AutoWeek yet?  Has a blurb on the A4 
cars.. and get this:
>It claims that the next Golf "will likely be powered by a revised 
version of its current 2.0-liter 
>four, and a similarly tweaked 24-valve 2.8-liter VR6."
>
>Hello?!!  24-valve??  I wonder if there is anything to this, or just 
some writer who knows that 
>the VR6 is "DOHC" <not!!> and substituted the term "24-valve" very 
loosely..??  Can anyone 
>substantiate this?  I have NO interest in a bigger GTI, but I'd sure as 
hell be interested in that 
>24-valve head!
>
>The article is accompanied by the first "official" photos of a Golf 
4-door.. look closely, I sure 
>as hell can't find any turn signals on the front of the car!!  Where 
are they??  Part of the 
>headlights? - doesn't look like it.
>
>--
>Kevin Collins
>collinsk@pacbell.net
>'97 GTI VR6
>


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