In a message dated 10/18/03 4:55:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes:

<< All Syncros (T3, Santana, Golf etc) used VCs instead of the Audi Quattro
Torsen
 setup. >>

With the exception of the 85 - 88 Quantum syncro wagon.  At least here in the
states and in europe it got Audi's quattro system.  It is a permanent all
wheel drive system with a central differential and two vacuum controlled
differential locks.  Its the drive train audi originally designed for military
vehicles such as the Iltis and its almost identical to the one that later achieved
such great notoriety in their legendary quattro rally cars.  Quite a heritage
for an otherwise sedate looking station wagon.

It works so well in the VW Quantum/Passat and in the ur/4000/5000 audis; it
just seems like it would have been a natural (and less troublesome) system for
the vanagon if it could have been easily "reversed"!

mark