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From: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: best car, worst car
Message-ID: <7763@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 09:11:17 EST
Article-I.D.: watrose.7763
Posted: Mon Jan 20 09:11:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jan-86 01:12:14 EST
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Reply-To: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <632@edison.UUCP> dca@edison.UUCP writes:

>Worst can describe unreliable but I think in the case of the 914,912
>it describes a Volkswagen disguised as a sports car.  The 914,912 fall
>in the worst category because they don't live up to their promises not
>because they are unreliable automobiles.  I disagree about the
>924 which while somewhat underpowered was otherwise a reasonable car.

Arrgghh!  Again!  As I previously described, the original 912 had no
Volkswagen in it besides its heritage (note that VW-Audi and Porsche are
two completely separate companies).  The 912E (only made for the US
market, and only in 1976) did have a VW Type IV engine, but that's
all.

As I recall, 914's did come from a VW assembly line (since Porsche did
not have sufficient capacity), but it was Porsche engineered.  The VW
components were to be found primarily in the drivetrain, which
included the same Type IV engine found in the 912E, the VW 411/412 and
the VW Transporter!  The 914/6, incidentally, was almost pure Porsche.
"Volkswagen disguised as a sports car": can you name half-dozen VW
components in the 914/6 (we all know the regualr 914 had a VW engine).
I can think of one --- inside door handles!


				   \tom haapanen
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