This is not correct. It is the aircooled 80-83 tranny that has the 4.57.
All the waterboxers have essentially the same gearing, whether 1.9 or
2.1, at least in North American models. 4.83 and 4.86 were both used.
The diesels had radically different  final drives, 5.86 and 5.43

In other markets there were various ratios offered.

Mark

Jake de Villiers wrote:

>The final drive ratio went from 4.57 on the 1.9 motor to 4.83 or 4.86,
>depending on the version of the gearbox. Tom Carrington's page has a link to
>Helmut's fairly complete listing of Vanagon transaxle ratios. Good Luck,
>Jake
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>From: "chris" <chris@MCCLURKEN.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 2:26 PM
>Subject: 83-85 & 86-91 Gas Manual Gear Ratios
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>>I wasn't able to quickly find this info through google. Basically, did
>>gear ratios change at all with the 2.1 engine?
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