Quantum was Passat in Europe, no? My cars and miles when sold: '88 Audi 90 - 400,000 miles (425K miles when totaled by next owner) '85 Vanagon Westfalia - 189,000 miles (original heads never leaked) '87 Jetta GLI - 225,000 miles My current '01 New Beetle TDI just turned over 156,000, which is a little more than halfway of my 300,000 goal. Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote: >My best value/lowest cost/mile car was a 1985 B2 chassis Quantum/Passat. Quantum was the US-market name for the Santana (which was also made by Nissan in Japan as Santana), available as a 1.6 turbodiesel or a 2.0 gas five. Of course it's basically an Audi 90, which is basically an Audi 80. The 1st-gen Passat was of course a rebadged Audi 80/Fox. Our lowest-cost car? 1986 Corolla DX 1.8 diesel sedan. Mainenance items only; however may km were wiped off the odo when it was imprted (SOP), it had over 660,000km when we sold it, and they were all hard km... it having been a taxi before we bought it and for years after. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut ‚ Opinions stated are mine, not of the University of Otago "There is water at the bottom of the ocean" - Talking Heads
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