My Golf has been in project "purgatory" for a few years now. Little progress as the 16V always ends up on the back burner. Here's my picture http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/squeegy200/Golf%20Project/front.jpg
I find myself more often alone at VW/Audi events with my A1 and A2 generation cars. The shared knowledgebase for the earlier generations are becoming more isolated. New and specific parts are becoming more difficult to find. And I'm seeing more and more A2s being retired to the salvage yards. However, I found this comment in the March 2005 publication of "European Car". European Editor and Race Car driver Alistair Weaver was commenting on the trend by manufacturers to constantly produce more powerful cars. In the end, they also end up adding more weight and complexity. He said this: "Take the Volkswagon Golf, for example. The 1976 genre-defining original was 19.7 in. shorter and 1100 lbs lighter than the new model. It was therefore only 1.1 sec slower from 0 to 60 mph, despite giving away 88 bhp to the new model. And because it's lighter and smaller, it's still more agile than it's great-great-grandson" -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Matthew Yip Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [a2-16v-list] test No one here but us chickens... I still have my 16v GTi and recently added an Audi with TWO 16v motors under the hood - I must really be a glutton for punishment... Matthew '87 GTi 16v '90 Audi V8 --- Larry Velez <[email protected]> wrote: > > A lot of us are still here... Just hibernating I guess. > > Larry > 91 GTI 16V > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Frank > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] test > > wow.. someone aside from me still uses this newsgroup.. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:31 PM > Subject: [a2-16v-list] test > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > a2-16v-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > > > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
