Whoah, let me get this straight. VW is going to build a small , inexpensive
2 door sedan with a rear engine that gets great gas mileage? A car almost
anyone can afford?

Whooda thought....

Next thing you know they'll find a way to put that engine into a boxy
"truck" type body.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jake de Villiers
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:24 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: new VW model has rear engine "waterboxer"

Pix available here:
http://www.germancarblog.com/2007/08/vw-city-expert-rear-engine-officially.h
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On 9/11/07, Paul Guzyk <paullist@guzyk.com> wrote:
>
> VW announces today the City Expert in Frankfurt, a new car powered by
> a rear mounted boxer engine.
>
> I wonder if it will make it to North America?    Could be a space
> efficient small car if they do it well.....hopefully this engine is
> designed better than the one used in Vanagons...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/237qvp
>

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