VW engineers reading ecomodder.com forums?

[MetroMPG]

Joking aside, I can tell you that people from the manufacturers really do read EcoModder. Some of them even participate! But just for fun and/or personal interest.

If any of them are learning things from us that they didn't already know, they (and we, by extension) are in big trouble!

[wagonman76]

Originally Posted by cfg83

Piwoslaw -



Yeah, but there's gotta be a market for the "aero-eco-kit". Racers with Passats would also buy it (I hope).

CarloSW2

Exactly. They gotta make something they can sell. The other mods arent exactly something that everyone can see, and most buys care most about what the car looks like.

[AJI]

Originally Posted by blueflame

Skoda Octavia comes from the same factory with different badges, and has got a big following here too.

Nearly all my surf buddies have Octavia and Passat wagons...

Strictly speaking the Octavia is based on the Mk4 Golf/Bora, not the Passat. The Skoda Superb is Passat-based, however

[theunchosen]

The reason Eruope gets them is because gas is much more expensive.

Yeah No offense to anyone here but whats happening in the car industry is not likely that they are listening to us. They are finally listening to people they pay to do this. They have hundreds of Mechanical engineers on their staff designing optimum flow water pumps and stupid items. Now they redeployed them to design the car itself. Most
Engineers that I know outside of car industries go home and do this to their cars anyway without every having heard of hypermiling.

There are alot of things on here that surface either just as someone develops or ahead of so I'm not saying its reinventing the wheel, just that its unlikely people who have spent 20 years designing cars are going to learn much from those of us(speaking for me) that can only put it together if all the proper pieces and tools are laid out.