VW Synchro sedan..
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chet
island Explorer
they are called a golf sycnro cross country. kinda wierd lookin things.! There was an imported one for sale here around a month ago. it even had a rear swing away tire carrier! I guess cause the syncro drive took up the spare location? From what I can gather they have a modded passat syncro drive train in them.
lowenbrau
Explorer
Ever since I saw them in Europe in the early 90s I thought they'd be an ideal vehicle for daily use. One of the reasons many people use SUVs is just in case of bad weather, rough roads etc. One of these sychro golfs could go anywhere that any of today's undersized stock SUVs could. With the turbo diesel it could do so getting 40 MPG.
chet said:
Actually, it was just the _Country_, and a Syncro drivetrain was an option on both the Golf and Jetta as standard sedans/hatchbacks w/o the Country package towards the end of the Mk.2 model run (but only in Germany and maybe a couple other markets).
I never got the impression that the Country was available as a turbodiesel, but I don't really know. Theoretically, in say- 1989, it should have been possible to order a Golf Syncro 1.6TD.
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77blazerchalet
Former Chalet owner
(copied from one of my other older unrelated posts here): A vehicle modified at the request of VW by Steyr Daimler Puch before they changed to doing military-only work ( http://www.steyr-ssf.com/ ), more fun info here: http://p3racing.net/vw/country.html I'd like to have one, problem with these is they would be gray market cars. Most VW nuts guess it's too much trouble to convert them to US D.O.T. specs.
