If Mercedes can import a diesel Smart, and VW can import a diesel Jetta, Golf, Passat, and Touareg, (sp?)... then you can make a Lupo work, I'd think. Just take off the catalytic converter....for now, until the fuel gets better here.
I think it has more to do with the VW "no longer the people's car" mentality - they want to be known here as luxury or something - good quality is not good enough for them any more. (I guess selling replacement molded coolant hoses, the ones you can't get from anyone else, at prices that ought to make them ashamed of themselves, to people who just want their great older VW's to be reliable, was not yet enough profit for them..they have to sell only the expensive of the newer models here, on top of it!!) On Thursday, May 6, 2004, at 02:18 PM, murdoch wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2004 15:27:50 -0500, you wrote: > >> Ed, >> >> I just spoke to a VW sales person a few moments ago while pricing out >> a >> rebuilt manual transmission for my '86 Golf. >> >> He stated that the Lupo isn't on the horizon for import into the US. > > Isn't this partly an issue of Ultra-Low-Sulfur Diesel not being > commonly available here, yet, the way it is in Europe? If the fuel > appropriate to how they designed the engine were common, wouldn't they > be more inclined to sell the vehicle here? > >> >> Well, maybe so. But I have this distinct feeling that the horizon is >> looming >> closer and closer with every barrel of oil purchased at $37 plus and >> maybe >> more of a fast track after November 11th. >> >> Todd Swearingen > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ---------------------~--> > Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 > http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ~-> > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
