Re: [sorta off topic] Need For Speed (not the game)

["Lee Folkman" <general_lee_f@hotmail.com>]

The Sharan is a van made in south africa.  it comes with the 1.8L 20V turbo 
or the 2.8L VR6. <http://www.vw.co.za/range/sharan/index.html>
Check out this link.

Lee Folkman
'84 Wolfsburg Scirocco 8v (soon to be turbo)
'82 Jetta Diesel(225,000+ and can still get 50mpg)
http://scirocco84.homepage.com


>From: "Neal Tovsen" <sixteen.volt@gte.net>
>To: "Scirocco-L" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: [sorta off topic] Need For Speed (not the game)
>Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 01:03:25 -0400
>
>I'm not sure if this link has been around yet, but I got it from the RS
>list, and it's pretty cool.
>
>http://come.to/need4speed
>
>It's a site dedicated to taking photographs of cars' speedometers at top
>speed. The current high mark is a Mclaren F1 at 391km/h (244Mph!!! there's 
>a
>quicktime video of it, too...).
>
>They have the cars divided into groups by horsepower, and 5th place in the
>100-150hp class is a Euro-spec Scirocco (215km/h = 134mph)! A lot of the
>pics are from Europe, of course, but not all. There's a few other VWs in 
>the
>ranks, too (what is a Sharan, anyway??). Most of the pics were sent in by
>"M.Lusk", whoever that is...
>
>Check out the Golf 4-Motion in Class 2. 150Mph, and the pic shows traffic 
>in
>front of him and beside him! That means that either the traffic was 
>HAULIN',
>or he did some serious braking after snapping the shutter...
>
>Neal
>
>
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