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

["Cooley, Christopher" <Christopher.Cooley@bactc.com>]

HA!  TRUE DAT!  :-)


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Christoper Hartwell@bbn.com [SMTP:chartwel@bbn.com]
	Sent:	Friday, June 19, 1998 8:57 AM
	To:	jettaglx@igtc.COM
	Subject:	RE: ID'ing VR6's -- WAS Re: Almost as bad as
sticker mods

	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
	>