true, ish. Doesn't Honda manage to fit full double wishbone in its transverse cars?
As for it mattering, no, it doesn't, again to the huge majority of passat owners. The Passat, like the Vectra and the Mondeo, is a very very good all round mid price car, it doesn't have to excel in anything.
Isn't that just another A8 / Phaeton clone but with less rear space?
It's why I bought one this week... TDI, naturally. ;-)
Very nice it is, too. :-)
SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Oh, I dunno. I would.
Because he'll do the same as he did with his early-production Conti - keep it for a few months, and sell it on for a price that will make a little profit, even counting the cost of financing it...
Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
The A8 and Phaeton don't shove a pair of turbos onto the W12...
Wonder if it'll all fit in a Passat - that'd give some people a fright.
Don't think so - that's why the Passat got a W8.
Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
If it'd fit in the new one, it'd fit in the Golf...
Not least the driver, I'd imagine.
If we were talking BMW instead of VW then Hartge would have done it by now.
V12 3 series compact anyone?
Now, back to the evil designs for a W12 lupo...
I suspect that would have to be mid engined.
Nice.
Today, we watch SteveH lose his 'h' key in the excitement resulting from thinking about the VW Phaeton.
Joan Collins drives a Phaeton, courtesy of VW I think.
All over enghined?
LOL!
LOL! He's just called Steve now :o)
be one up from the 3 litre Lupo they made a while ago...
Despite its 5998cc capacity, the 420PS W12 is just over 50cm long, and around 70cm high and wide.
So, anyone got a Lupo and a tape measure?
Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
I don't think a Lupo bonnet's 70cm long. Don't forget all the other stuff you've got to squeeze in there - like, oooh, rad/plumbing/steering...
I had a Mk3 VR6 Golf - and that was bloody *crammed* - the battery wore a space blanket, and the bonnet heat insulation was about 2" thick.
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