Anyone heard from Roland Kunz??, Found this old email from him... |
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Anyone heard from Roland Kunz??, Found this old email from him... |
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May 5 2005, 09:50 PM
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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 02:04:27 +0200
From: Roland Kunz [ Add to Address Book | Block Address | Report as Spam ] To: Subject: Re: Furmann Engine Hello Hmm maybe you know Mr. Metz ? He is very well known in the bug scene. Porsche was´n´t surprised that VW kicked there ass. They knew that since they stoped the 916 and some other projects. The hardest hit was when VW destroyed the EA 266 project using Leopard tanks ( a other Porsche construction ) to flat the prototypes including the Porsche midengine units based on that EA 266. This was the same hour the 928 was born. The EA 266 engine and some other parts relived later in the VW Polo. Porsche had a high demand on 4 cylinder cars especially in the US marked ( when the first oilcrisis focused the buyers onto more economy but still fun cars ). The knew that they couldn´t built the 914 longer as VW moved them out so they startet the 924 project complete independend from VW. Porsche was even thinking about moving the 914 production to Zuffenhausen or to Neckarsulm. There didn´t had been to much VW parts into them so there was a hughe advantage. But the calculation showed that the 914 was still to expensive sharing to much cost intensive parts with the 911 and the 924 was a much more profitable car sharing much more parts with VW & Audi products then the 914 and had a much simpler constructet unibody too. But as long Karmann could built 914´s Porsche forced them to do that. So the Scirroco and the 914 where built at the same time but VW/Karmann had to use the stamping tools for the Scirroco so they made enough big stampings for MY75/76 ahead and stored them while the smaler stamping tools keept equiped with 914 tools as long the Scirroco/Dasher/Golf line keept drollling in average numbers. The Scirroco became a hit ( Now with 85 HP it had the same performance like the 914 with 85 HP but cost some 30% less in retail ) as the Golf & Dasher too so VW deletet the 412 to built more dashers and the 914 for the Scirroco. Karmann then assembled as long parts where on stock and Porsche built the 912E to fill the gap untill the 924 showed up in the marked. Grüsse |
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