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Date:         Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:05:39 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: The Ideal vanagon
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>Any thoughts as to why VW didn't put the Quattro system under the
>vanagon?  Would it have required too many modifications to an
>otherwise "off the shelf" package?


Because VW wanted to have its own full-time 4WD system. All Syncros
(T3, Santana, Golf etc) used VCs instead of the Audi Quattro Torsen
setup. In the latish 80s Nissan made a Pulsar with a VC too, though
it was FWD not 4WD. Bet these don't crap-out the way VW's do!


I think the Japanese ful-time 4WDs are fully-mechanical (no electronics).
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
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