Laugh all you want at the new VW Lupo...that 1.4L that you had trouble
keeping up is a 16V DIESEL reported to get an excess of 70mpg.  Turns out
the VW/Audi does some of their endurance testing at a facility outside
Phoenix AZ.
Karl Batzler
84 Vanagon
87 Audi 5000 S
La Quinta, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 10:54 PM
Subject: Weird VW sighting...

>While cruising from Prescott to Phoenix Thursday I was passed by a 'VW LUPO
>1.4' and an 'AUDI A3 1.8' (as badged on the back); they both had mfgr.
>plates, & I had to push the 8V GTI up to >90 to catch/keep up.  I hope they
>were a joke 'cuz they were both *seriously* ugly (imagine the dwarfed
>offspring of a Geo Metro + Mitsubishi Expo).
>
>Austin