Badge Ceiling?

fred246

Ford contributed the blue oval badge for the back.

AdrianC

So much more than an Egyptian river...

https://europe.autonews.com/article/19981012/ANE/810120866/ford-and-vw-end-minivan-partnership

Even as simple as the basic mechanicals were jointly sourced - diesel and 2.8 petrol = VW, 2.0 and 2.3 petrol = Ford. Auto box = VW, manual box = Ford.

fred246

Mine is all VW.

AdrianC

fred246 wrote: »

Mine is all VW.

So a post-99 automatic v6 or automatic diesel? Still not "all" VW, but as close as you'll get.

fred246

Neither. You haven't got your 'facts' right.

AdrianC

One of us hasn't, that's true.

And it's not me that's trying to pretend my Ford Galaxy is "100% VW" bar the badges.

So you have a Galaxy developed by the Ford/VW joint venture, built by AutoEuropa in Palmela before VW bought Ford's 50%, with a Ford NSE 2.0 or Ford Y5A/B 2.3 connected to a Ford NXT75 box, but it's absolutely 100% VW. Gotcha.

fred246

It's got a VW 1.9 TDI 130ps ASZ engine with a VW 6 speed transmission as found in lots of VWs. I'm not really bothered what it is but I get a bit fed up when the VW parts people try and send me to a Ford dealer or someone tells me a VW would be more reliable than my Ford and then they don't believe you when you say it is a VW!