Then there's the Toureg, the Phaeton and who knows
what else VAG has up their sleeve. Exciting stuff I
say. W8 Passat and what about that the W12 sports car
and the future W16 Bugatti Veyron?
Since Audi is related, who about that RS6? Bi-turbo
4.2L V-8, insanely flat Kansas torque curve. 450hp in
Europe, maybe tamed down to 444hp for U.S. pundits.
Dr. Piech is one crazy dude. If it wasn't for him VW
would not have had the gall to produce anything narrow
angle V nothing. Talk about guts.
--- Matt Murray <mattm@optonline.net> wrote:
> From Automotive News
> Matt Murray
>
> mattm@optonline.net
>
>
>
> VW to launch new Microbus vehicle in 2005
>
> Reuters / June 11, 2002
>
>
> FRANKFURT - Volkswagen AG said on Tuesday it expects
> to launch
> its new Microbus leisure vehicle in 2005 and has
> selected its
> plant in Hanover to produce the new line.
>
> Confirming a Reuters report, the company said the
> decision would
> lead to 1,500 new jobs at the Hanover facility.
>
> The Microbus will start with annual production of as
> many as
> 120,000 units, VW Chief Executive Bernd
> Pischetsrieder said at a
> meeting of the works council in Hanover.
>
> The company then expects average annual production
> of about
> 80,000 units.
>
> Pischetsrieder said the group plans to sell about
> two thirds of
> the Microbus units in the U.S. market, where a love
> of earlier
> versions of what he called the "cult object" in the
> past was
> rivaled only by a passion for the VW Beetle.
>
> The German automaker made three generations of the
> Microbus
> between 1950 and 1992, with peak sales of more than
> 66,000 in
> 1970.
>
> VW unveiled a concept of the new Microbus at the
> Detroit Motor
> Show in January 2001.
>
> VW chose Hanover in lieu of Palmela, Portugal.
>
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