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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / 4x4 Cars / February 2005

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130-series Land Cruiser 2007 & VW Touareg TDi uses Japanese Aisin slushbox

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Willem-Jan Markerink - 21 Feb 2005 21:21 GMT
Interesting note in the text on 3rd page, Aisin producing the 6-speed
slushbox for the VW Touareg....
(since the very first rumours for the VW V10 TDi, the transmission was the
main problem (I don't think the ever even considered a manual for it....:))

http://www.pbase.com/drexx/land_cruiser_news&page=all

Butt-ugly C-style though....wonder what body the poverty-pack models
(Africa/Australia) will get....the current split between J100/IFS &
J105/solid-axles is already a strain, concept-wise (J105 is basically
identical to J8, including frame; only different body).

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RN - 22 Feb 2005 19:36 GMT
> Interesting note in the text on 3rd page, Aisin producing the 6-speed
> slushbox for the VW Touareg....
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> J105/solid-axles is already a strain, concept-wise (J105 is basically
> identical to J8, including frame; only different body).

Maar die d4d v8 diesel klinkt wel interessant...

RN
Willem-Jan Markerink - 22 Feb 2005 20:19 GMT
>> Interesting note in the text on 3rd page, Aisin producing the 6-speed
>> slushbox for the VW Touareg....
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Maar die d4d v8 diesel klinkt wel interessant...

Only multitudes of 6 are okay....;))

(if only because an inline-6 leaves more room on the side of the engine,
for aftermarket bells & whistles....:))
(OTOH, it might be worse, the shape of the nose *requiring* a shorter &
lower engine....which would then mean that there *can't* be a 'poverty-
pack' version of this model, with solid axles (and lockers front and rear;
no locker available for the front axle on the luxury J100/IFS version today
either), since those workhorses require both simplicity (no turbo,
definitely not two) and the low-end torque of an inline-6.

The silly thing is: 220kW with the current inline-6 isn't very difficult to
obtain either, with aftermarket tuning....even only requires 5-7.5k euro.

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Willem-Jan Markerink

     The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
    the inability to understand

<w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
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RN - 22 Feb 2005 22:07 GMT
>>> Interesting note in the text on 3rd page, Aisin producing the 6-speed
>>> slushbox for the VW Touareg....
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
> to
> obtain either, with aftermarket tuning....even only requires 5-7.5k euro.

In de toelichting wordt nog wel gerept over dat wellicht de oude 6 cyl. nog
geleverd zal blijven. Er is dus nog hoop voor je ;-)

Ikzelf zou echter toch wel eens een keertje een v8 willen hebben. Een
amerikaan heb ik nl. nooit durven kopen (troep) maar stiekum wel altijd
"begeerd".

RN
 
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