On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:52 AM, kimbrennan@mac.com <kimbrennan@mac.com>wrote: > Vw switched to water cooling for the same reason Porsche did (eventually) > on the 911. Emissions. > > That may have been part of the reason for VW but I know for a fact that Porsche gave up trying to make a dependable and powerfull enough air cooled engine (motor?)...For a couple of years during the transition from Air cooling to water cooling they even made a Porsche similar to the WBX, engine-wise kind of half and half.......the 993....notorious for blowing it's heads off... Watching one of the last aircooled Porsches, what they always call 911s, run against a newer water cooled Porsches, also sometimes called 911s, you will easily see why they made the switch... |
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