After reading this thread yesterday I was at my dealer and asked about the
solar panels.  They just got a bulletin saying to deliver them to the
customer.  I went to new car sales, told them I'd just bought a car and
asked for one.  They gave me one, no problem.

Way cool.  3.2 watts at 18volts full power.

Mike

On 9/5/02 3:07 AM, "Frank Condelli" <RAlanen@AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 9/4/2002 10:29:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
>
>> I also noticed the cool solar panels that come with all of the new VWs.
>> Someone has posted about them before.
>
>      Ken, that was me who made the original post after my friend who works
> in a VW shop near Toronto showed up at BusFusion with one of these solar
> panels.  He now tells me that they, the VW dealer, got a message from VW head
> office that all solar panels must be delivered with the car to the purchaser.
> Ha !  I am still trying to get my hands on one.  No luck yet but hope to
> have one soon.  Eventually there will be piles of these lying around
> somewhere, since every new VW that comes into North America has one on the
> windshield.