On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@zorck.dk> wrote: > Hi Neil > > Agreed - VW used the diesel-I4 in the Vanagon. At the same time VW had > plenty of good gasoline I4 engines - using a lot of the same parts as the > diesel-i4 - so VW could in 1983 quite easily have changed from boxer to > gasoline I4 - but somewhere inside VW the argumentation/businesscase for > making the WBX is stored - and I think that it would be an absolutely > historic scoop to get the real story about why VW decided to make the WBX, > instead of changing to gasoline I4 in 1983. > It would be interesting to know. I may have a look around my Gerry/Opera archives to see if there's more on it. Kind of a minor PITA though as I need a way to make the text bigger (Mac/Opera) Neil. |
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