Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:03:29 -0600
Reply-To:     Eric Wunrow <VW@ERICWUNROW.COM>
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From:         Eric Wunrow <VW@ERICWUNROW.COM>
Subject:      Re: NVC Re: VW, honour, and culture
Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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VW needs to regain the trust and loyalty we've all long had, while appealing to younguns all over again.

We've lived in our '84 for 26 months, and the younger crowds drool everywhere we park. Buyers already in line.

(My Fave to Quote: "Finest travel machine ever built, so long as it's parked.")


Time to re-launch the Vanagon, in TD, or Straight 5, or maybe a 2.8L Boxer, and/or hybrid. 

The tooling's mostly done, put on new bumpers, electronics, and motor on the thing and off we/they go.

Turn the front grill into a smile for guaranteed returns.


Or at least launch the Formula 1 effort we keep hearing about!

(T6 Vanagon option's cheaper and more immediately profitable...).

 Eric
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 303. 988. 8717
 VW@EricWunrow.com




On Sep 25, 2015, at 9:06 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> VW new the need was coming. Diesel fuel had to be cleaned up well in advance (<15ppm sulfur) well before the 2007 model year to support the technologies required for that year. There are no 2003-2006 Diesel cars here. 
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jon VO
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 1:22 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: NVC Re: VW, honour, and culture
> 
> It is possible the VW diesel would not pass all the newest tier 2, bin 1 standards ( NoX < 0.02gm/mi)  standards without Bluetec, which would have meant no TDI sales for a few years. NoX is dependent on combustion temps, controlling with EGR & fuel delivery is not effective enough to meet the stricter US standards.
> Injecting a fluid to control emissions and combustion temps has been around for years, kind of odd turns out to be urea for diesels...
> JonVO
> 
> On 9/25/2015 11:14 AM, Karl Ploessl wrote:
>> so we know that VW "cheated". But how was it done?
>> 
>> CEO says to his underling: go and get the the diesel engine certified.
>> Underling goes to his/her underling and tells them get it done. And so on.
>> Diesel engineer knows that it can't be done and orders the programmers 
>> to put in cheat code. So there must be lots of people involved who 
>> "knew", at least programmers, engineer? Everybody is quiet, doesn't go 
>> home and tells SO about the work? SO doesn't chat with neighbors....
>> Difficult to imagine that everybody kept a quiet lip... but has to be 

>> like that?
>> 
>> What other scenarios are possible?
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Richard Smith 
>> <richard_smith@gnwc.ca>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Small to medium sized enterprises.
>>> --
>>> On Sep 25, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM<mailto:
>>> sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> SME being ? (sorry, the only SME I know is a Subject Matter Expert)
>>> 
>