OdinEidolon wrote:
VAG kept building them for the only reason that upgrading them to the technical limit was much cheaper than paying for Bosch's common rail licences (Bosch bought them from Fiat).
When the end users finally found out that the famous "german engineering" was pretty much outdated (the other makers started using CR in ~2000) they were forced to go on the new route. It's incredible how the VW group badge is so strong that they can afford to use weaker tech for 6 years and still retain the "they are the cutting edge of technology" common belief.
Actually this was not vag's own choise, originally the commonraili system was invented by lancia/fiat, and they sold the licensing to bosch, and they made an agreement, that this tecnology could not be sold to vag for 10 years. :lol: :lol: that's why vag was forced to pd systems.
edit: doh this was allready mentioned.
anyway cr all the way.
