RE: chassis designations - decipher please. (a1,a2,a3..)

["Brubaker, John" <JBrubaker@AMF.com>]

Paul wrote:

Hehehe, I just love rattling everyones cage. ;-)  BTW:  It is actually
LESS key strokes to use SI & SII (you lose the 'k' in a Scirocco I).
Also, most vendor catalogs use this notation.

I should have used this list for my Psych research/papers when I was
going to school for Psychology.  Reasearch paper title "People set in
their ways" :-)

[jb] I don't usually respond to posts of this sort, but I'm not in a great 
mood and found this statement somewhat offensive.  I'm not sure why this is 
so, yet that's the way it is.  On this list and in my everyday discussions 
of VW's and Sciroccos I use the following STANDARD:

A1 - Chassis Platform
Mk1 & Mk2 - Body Style

This has nothing to do with something so petty as keystrokes, nor does it 
have to do with some close minded notion of being "set in my ways."  It has 
to do with having a STANDARD so that we are better able to understand each 
other.  When I say Mk1, Shawn knows exactly what I am talking about.  When 
someone says A1 when in reality he is talking about the earlier body style 
(up to '81) there is confusion.  I particularly do not care to spend any 
more time than necessary trying to figure out what someone is talking 
about.  I am patient, but when I see posts that try to undermine this 
STANDARD it sort of pisses me off because of the degenerative effects it 
has (i.e. - posts asking what the heck you are talking about).  I do not 
believe I am in the minority here.  This list is mainly for sharing a 
common bond and helping each other.  Let's try to make this as 
uncomplicated and understandable as possible.

John
80 Scirocco S - Mk1

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