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OT: C & D and other magazines
Well with all due respect I would agree with about half of those statements.
Yes, the cars are maintained by a seperate company (called A&M for most of
the places around the country and Specialty Transport in the others not
served by A&M) but many of them are unique from the standard press cars. I
spoke to my friend who is the Fleet Manager for VW and Audi and she claims
that in the case of my 2000 GTI 1.8t that I bought from VW they spend an
average of $10,000 per car to make sure that the car is perfect.... They
hand build the cars seperately and have a completely different set of people
to go through the quality process as the car rolls down the line... As a
perfect case in point to the cars differing from production models my GTI
had a provision for the rear differential that was unique from the cars that
we see here in North America.
All is not perfect however; I recently got an Audi A6 with the new CVT
transmission from A&M that was delivered with the check engine light on and
it didn't go ten feet without shutting down completely! Probably some bad
gas but still... Audi roadside assistance does have its' merits. ;-)
Your humble servant,
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mash" <type53@yahoo.com>
To: "16V Jason" <jason@scirocco.org>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: OT: C & D and other magazines
> --- 16V Jason <jason@scirocco.org> wrote:
> > Guys,
> > Below is from a friend of mine who knows about
> > these things: :)
> > Jason
> >
> >
> > Jason,
> >
> > The cars tested in magazines come from independent
> > companies, but the
> > manufacturers provide cars to those companies. They
> > just have those
> > companies (most go through A&M) maintain the cars
> > and handle the loans to
> > avoid the hassle, not to ensure that the cars are
> > actually stock. That
> > said, I haven't heard of nonstandard cars in quite
> > some time, although I am
> > also not sure anyone would ever know. I am sure the
> > car companies, at the
> > very least, give the cars a thorough going-over
> > before sending them into
> > the press fleet.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > At 12:20 PM 2/1/2002 -0500, 16V Jason wrote:
> > >At 04:38 PM 1/31/2002, UrGTI@aol.com wrote:
> > >>I was looking though a buddies library of car
> > mags and I think it was R&T
> > >>where they are testing a 16v rocco and you can
> > clearly spot the 50mm intake
> > >>in the pics of the engine bay. I cant remember it
> > it had A/C or not but my
> > >>memory is leaning towards not.
> > >
> > >Oh yeah -- all of the magazines do. Now, mind
> > you, most of them used
> > stock VW photos -- but if you look closely at the
> > R&T photo (which was not
> > a VW pic), that baby's a 50mm intake.
> > >
> > >Now, is it any wonder noone can duplicate 0-60mph
> > runs in 8s flat (or
> > 7.7s as per R&T) with a stock 1.8?! If they put the
> > 50mm intake on, it
> > wouldn't surprise me that they also did other
> > internal engine mods -- for
> > all we know, it could be a 2.0 with a Euro cam and
> > Euro FI.
> > >
> > >It's my understanding now that the car magazines
> > get their test cars from
> > an independent company -- not the manufacturer
> > directly. (Ever notice how
> > all the magazines have the identical car in the same
> > issue??) So
> > thankfully, that problem has been solved...
> > >
> > >Jason
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >----------
> > >1987 Scirocco 2.0 16v [7.4s 0-60; was 8.7s with
> > the 1.8]
> > >1988 Mercedes 190E Sport 2.0 [9.5s 0-60, but it's
> > Euro-spec so no torque!]
> > >1994 Golf III GL 2.0 [11.7s 0-60 -- WOOHOO!!!]
> > >
> > >http://www.scirocco16v.org
>
>
> This may have been addressed, but there is a legend
> that VW shipped some 16V Sciroccos here with the 50mm
> intakes by error.
>
> I have no idea if there's any truth to it . . .
>
>
>
>
> =====
> Mark Peele
> 1985 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1981 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
> http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
> Direct Mail: SCIROCCO_GTX@YAHOO.COM
> Need parts? try http://www.parts4vws.com/ (Potterman)
> or http://www.germanautoparts.com/ (Adirondack)
> or http://thescirocco.com
>
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