AND, my daughter April has a dark gun metal grey Passat 4motion wagon with the W8 in Watsonville, just south of Santa Cruz !  Pretty rare birds.  I hear there were only 1400 or 1800 of these built.  Hope there's parts for that engine when the time comes !  This is NOT an April fools joke !

On 2011-04-01, at 8:32 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> I knew about the W12 in the Phaeton, but did not know about this engine or =
> that it had been available in the Passat.=A0 Now two of these cars turned u=
> p at neighborhood lots a block apart. Both 2003, both pale metallic green, =
> both 4Motion, both manumatic, one a wagon with matching green leather and t=
> he other a sedan with tan leather.=A0 I looked up the engine and it's two n=
> arrow-angle VR4s side by side.=A0 Looks hellaciously complicated, but they =
> look like pretty nice cars.=A0 Just dreaming.

       Please note that I will be away from my business travelling from December 06 until April 30, 2011.  Parts orders will be processed although not as quickly as usual.  I will always be available for contact by E-mail.  If you phone your call will be addressed by Greg T. Brown here and he will either call you back or advise you to contact me directly by E-mail. Details of this adventure are on our Travel Blog: http://frankcondelli.com/travels/

Cheers,    

Frank Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
'87 Westy & Lionel Trains (Collection for sale)
Frank Condelli & Associates - Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust Systems
BusFusion a VW Camper camping event, Almonte, ON, June 09 ~ 12, 2011