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<x-charset iso-8859-1>Hi, It seems to me that the Type 34 probably suffered in many ways by comparison to the Type 14. It wasn't differentiated enough from it and all in all I think it was a pretty poor piece of marketing on the part of VW. For them to only sell 42000 cars in nine years must have been a huge flop for them; they were after all used to selling cars by the million. Putting myself in the place of a 1960s customer looking for a sports coupe, given the choice between the Type 34 and the seemingly very similar and - I assume - much cheaper Type 14, I can't see much that would induce people to spend the extra money. It didn't even have its own name, and it had a least three names during the nine years it was sold - 1500 Karmann Ghia, 1500S Karmann Ghia and finally 1600L Karmann Ghia. The result is that nowadays most people aren't even aware that the car existed; I know I wasn't - until the day that I bought one. Daniel Baum > VW articles certainly mention continuing development of the convertible Type > 3 into at least 63/64. Probably the Type 34 cabrio suffered through the > continuing strong sales of the Type 1 Ghia cabrio. > > Dave. > UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club > http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ > ------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe > </x-charset>