RE: ID'ing VR6's -- WAS Re: Almost as bad as sticker mods

["Christoper Hartwell@bbn.com" <chartwel@bbn.com>]

The true test.... Just pull up to the line in your VR6 and.... leave the GT
wondering why he put the stickers on his car in the first place.

At 08:24 AM 6/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I usually look at the exhaust.  What goes in must come out.
>
>
>	-----Original Message-----
>	From:	Khan M. Klatt [SMTP:kmk@pacificrim.net]
>	Sent:	Thursday, June 18, 1998 9:52 PM
>	To:	jettaglx@igtc.COM
>	Subject:	ID'ing VR6's -- WAS Re: Almost as bad as sticker
>mods
>
>	At 3:04 PM -0700 6/18/98, Jeff Newton wrote:
>	>Guys I saw something yesterday that bothered me.  It was a 4cyl
>Jetta
>	>K2 (basically a GT with a roof rack and snowboard/skis) and the
>only
>	>mod this guy made was a VR6 badge on the front grill!
>	>
>	>If the guy wanted a VR6 then he should have bought one, not
>pretend.
>	>If he wanted to make the car look faster, how about some bigger
>wheels
>	>or perf exhaust?  Adding the VR6 badge to a 4cyl is just as bad
>as
>	>the huge sticker mods in my books.
>	>
>	>Am I right or is the stress of work effecting my normally
>positive
>	>outlook?
>
>	I've learned to pick out the elements that signal a sure fire
>VR6 under the
>	hood.
>
>	The only ones I've found are the five lug wheels (hard to see
>when you're
>	driving), or if you've got a keen eye, the 15" wheels (the
>fourbangers got
>	14"'s).
>
>	You can try to see if the Jetta has the following combination:
>fog lights,
>	darkened lenses, black rocker panel covers, spoiler, and center
>mounted
>	roof antenna, and if so it could be a GT, Trek, or Wolfsburg
>edition.
>	Usually, those are a giveaway by their badges or lack thereof.
>If they only
>	have SOME of these, then it's really a GL that's been upgraded
>with fogs,
>	etc.
>
>	Of course, the big giveaway is the huge grin on the other
>drivers' face. If
>	it matches yours, then he's got a GLX too!
>
>	-Khan
>