Re: [T3] Automatic + carbs

[Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no>]

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Freddie Lochner wrote:

> Wow, more good info.  It makes sense, because of its utilitarian nature, to make the panel
> version a 1600A model and to give it a swing axle suspension.  But you'd think that in
> increasing its load capacity, they would've given it a more powerful motor.  Hmm.
My guess (and in no way a fact stated by VW) that the 1500cc engine was 
kept for the panel to keep the price down. A lot of different types of 
people who needed some kind of utility vehicle chose a panel-van type 
wagon over a "real" van like the VW Transporter. In addition to VW's 
panel squareback you could get similar panel wagons from Opel, Ford, 
Peugeot, Austin etc etc. So VW probably had to stick with the 1500 cc 
single carb to keep prices down, because it was a known fact that the 
type 3 was priced high compared with the competition.

PerL
73 Variant L


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