We’re posting this Flash-related plea for a friend…

I’m (also) a car geek, and one of my favorite pieces of Flash work ever is this educational mini-site about Volkswagen engine technology. I send people there all the time, both to learn about these engines and to see one of the things Flash is perfect for: interactive explanations.

But it hasn’t been updated since 2002!

It’s basically obsolete at this point — no 3.2L VR6, 2.0FSI-T, 2.5L-5, W8 or W12 — and I’ve emailed VW to suggest they have it updated, to no avail. I don’t think it’s even linked to from within the site any more.

Does anyone in the Flashforward community know who built this? Whoever it was: call VW and convince them to let you bring it up to date, and maintain it forever! They still use Flash all over their site, so they probably just forgot about this poor abandoned code. And their engine technology has not gotten any simpler to explain!

Can anyone help this “friend” of ours? We — I mean, he’d appreciate it very much.

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