Date:         Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:18:12 -0800
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The real story about the invention of the WBX?
Comments: To: Jens Jakob Andersen <jayjay@zorck.dk>
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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.