Re: Golf IV not coming to US?

["Marc A. Brown" <mad_one@email.msn.com>]

After seeing the new A4 body Golf this weekend at Waterfest (thanks to VW
Sport), I think it would be a good idea if they did import it.  The car
looks much better in person than it does in pictures.  When I saw it I was
ready to put a deposit on one.

-----Original Message-----
From: ken r weidmann jr. <glxtasy@juno.com>
To: gti-vr6@dev.tivoli.com <gti-vr6@dev.tivoli.com>; jettaglx@igtc.COM
<jettaglx@igtc.COM>; lleff@imisys.com <lleff@imisys.com>
Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 1:16 PM
Subject: Golf IV not coming to US?


>This weekend my partner went back to the VW dealer he used to work at and
>was looking at a new passat wagon for his wife.  He was talking to the
>sales manager and some of the sales staff and they told him word had come
>down this weekend that VW USA is not going to import any of the Golf
>IV's.  They feel that the New Beetle, which is outselling the Golf III by
>about an 11:1 margin, is their ticket.  Also, since the Jetta seems to be
>so popular, they will be continuing this and according to the new
>Autoweek will have for engines when it launches in Europe a:
>1)  90 hp 1.9 4 cylinder turbodiesel
>2)  100 hp 1.6 4 cylinder
>3)  a 150 hp 2.3 VR5 with the VR5 set to form the basis for US sales.
>Early next year VW will add a 115 hp 1.9 turbodiesel and a 200hp 2.8 VR6
>synchro, no word in the article as to whether either of these engines
>would be coming to the US or not.
>
>  I think that VW is missing the boat if they feel that the New Beetle is
>taking sales from the Golf.  I think that the new beetle is generating
>it's own sales and that the golf is just kind of lingering at the moment
>since it is at the end of it's design cycle.  But if this is true, most
>of you may be holding a collectors item in your garage.
>
>Ken Weidmann Jr
>GLXTASY@Juno.com
>Checkered Flag Automotive Components
>95 Black Jetta GLX M3 wannabe
>85 Show Scirocco
>
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