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Granted that was with the I4 GRE that doesn't seem to be taking hold in the USA.
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I don't think VW would be all that eager to get to work on a cast iron V-8 but what if they're asking NASCAR if they have any plans to go to a FI V-6 in the near future? With three turbo V-6's in Indycar and at least a couple potentially looking for 2013 it might be that VW/Porsche would consider both US series if they could use various forms of the same engine.
The story from jayski is:
UPDATE: A NASCAR official confirmed the sanctioning body has a meeting scheduled with Volkswagen in January. While Volkswagen competition representative Hans-Joachim Stuck emphatically denied any interest in American stock cars at Homestead one year ago, in a recent interview with Financial Times Deutschland the former racer discussed possibly taking the brand to Formula One and NASCAR. Reports earlier this month confirmed VW wouldn't pursue F1 after all. When VW unveiled its new assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., in September, Dr. Martin Winterkorn, chairman of the board of management at Volkwagen AG, announced to 700-plus dealers from the U.S. and Canada that he aspired to take his brand "to the top of the auto industry by 2018." Certainly, NASCAR's "marketing (platform)" could be the perfect vehicle to accomplish that task. VW holds the distinction of being the largest automaker in Europe. In the U.S., however, recent tallies from October show VW of America only holding a 2.1 market share of cars sold, according to the Wall Street Journal.(FoxSports)(11-20-2010)
I don't think VW would be all that eager to get to work on a cast iron V-8 but what if they're asking NASCAR if they have any plans to go to a FI V-6 in the near future? With three turbo V-6's in Indycar and at least a couple potentially looking for 2013 it might be that VW/Porsche would consider both US series if they could use various forms of the same engine.
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