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    Posted: 29-Apr-2010 at 08:06
Originally posted by coach_pilot

Hi VWAffe,

It's true, I sold my W8. Our familiy decided to have a dog and my W8 was equipped with bright beige leather. For this reason I sold the car. In the meantime my former business car, the VW Multivan, replaces the W8.
After several business cars from VW, like Golf V GTI, Golf V GT TDI 170 hp, Tiguan TDI 140 hp and Passat Variant Highline TDI 140 hp I had to decide for a new one. Since one week I have an Audi A4 allroad TDI 240 hp and I am very satisfied.


I'd have gotten a bright beige dog to go with the car!

And who wouldn't be satisfied with the 240hp TDI? Unfortunately we don't ever get those engines over here in the States.

Cheers!

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Originally posted by VWAffe

Erstmal GrüßGott, und wilkommen im Forum! Soweit ich weiß, gibt's wenige Deutsche Mitglieder, aber wohl mehrere Lurker.

Ich glaube, coach_pilot sei nicht mehr oft mit dabei... wenn ich das richtig erinnere, hätte er vor rund ein Jahr sein W8 verkauft.

Weisst du schon vom W8 Forum für Deutsch-Sprechenden? Mal vorbeischauen tut nichts, obwohl weniger da als hier los ist.

Bis dann!


Hi VWAffe,

It's true, I sold my W8. Our familiy decided to have a dog and my W8 was equipped with bright beige leather. For this reason I sold the car. In the meantime my former business car, the VW Multivan, replaces the W8.
After several business cars from VW, like Golf V GTI, Golf V GT TDI 170 hp, Tiguan TDI 140 hp and Passat Variant Highline TDI 140 hp I had to decide for a new one. Since one week I have an Audi A4 allroad TDI 240 hp and I am very satisfied.
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Originally posted by VWAffe

Since you're just interested in German, you could also ask the Goethe Institute for suggestions!


Good tip - and there's an office in Ottawa!
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/ott/enindex.htm
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Posts: 470 		  Quote VWAffe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Mar-2008 at 17:34
Rosetta Stone software is supposed to be pretty good. I got my hands on the Swedish and Japanese programs for work, but haven't had much time to devote to it so far. What parts I have worked through seem to be using a good approach - they use a method more analogous to how we learn language as kids - relying heavily on sight/sound associations to teach rather than letting you continuously translate from your mother tongue to the new one. Matter of fact, that's really how I learned German so well, even though I had 5 years of academic instruction beforehand.

Since you're just interested in German, you could also ask the Goethe Institute for suggestions!
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Anybody have a good reference for a German self-study language program?


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Erstmal GrüßGott, und wilkommen im Forum! Soweit ich weiß, gibt's wenige Deutsche Mitglieder, aber wohl mehrere Lurker.

Ich glaube, coach_pilot sei nicht mehr oft mit dabei... wenn ich das richtig erinnere, hätte er vor rund ein Jahr sein W8 verkauft.

Weisst du schon vom W8 Forum für Deutsch-Sprechenden? Mal vorbeischauen tut nichts, obwohl weniger da als hier los ist.

Bis dann!
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Gruetzi aus der Schweiz!

Muss mal bestimmt mit der W8 nach D fahren, haben mir leute aber gesagt das die gruene partei endlich gewonnen hat und jetzt kann mann kaum unbegrenzte autobahnstrecken finden. stimmts? Vor wenigen jahren gabs noch unbegrenzte strecken auf der A5, naehe freiburg im breisgau.

Denke auch mann kann viel mehr auf ebay.de finden als in den staaten.

alles bestens!

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Posts: 205 		  Quote spinner Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-Dec-2006 at 10:01
Hmm, there are no side-lights on my W8 - think its an US-only thing...

Haven't seen any with a frontal park assistant ... Don't think it was available...
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Originally posted by B5crazy

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Hey Derek,

Nice garage!

It looks like your rear valance is different than mine. I wonder why VW would do that?

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Hi Tom,

Nice to meet you again. Hope you and your family are well and job and car are running.

My garage is brand new and ready since two weeks. It needed lots of money to construct it. Usually it should go on faster than it really went, but the construction firms are really stupid people, I can tell you.

But now our cars and all the rest of things we have around the house (bicycles, toys for the kids, machines for the garden and so on ..................) have a new home.


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Originally posted by spinner

I think it is quite normal that there is a difference in the european vs. american models.

Usually the numberplate is of a different form factor, and you get side-light on your models ... we don't [IMG]smileys/smiley19.gif" align="middle" />

But I don't see the park-assistant on any of your models ... I didn't know that that actually was optionally on the W8-model...


Concerning the rear valance the size of the number plate is the only difference I know. I think the side-lights are part of the rear bumper, same with park assistant. I just have it on the back side, does anybody know, if there was a parlk assistant for the front side available?

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