Spoke with a friend today who's a sales guy. Says every event they go to for VW he's up their asses about this car. And all they say is... "we haven't made up our mind yet," possible in late 2011 maybe.
Can't believe VW won't admit it even in limited numbers. In the mean time I'm buying one of these engines and placing it in my Bug!
http://www.aircooledtechnology.com/ I may just go back to old School. Like I did when I began. Cheap, fast, fun and easy to work on too!
Where I began:
Keep in mind this was in the '70's
Muscle cars couldn't keep pace with me. I should have never sold it!