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On 10 Feb 2003 at 8:40, Steven Ayres wrote: > JimA=> I wonder why VW altered this. > > That would have been Karmann, not VW, of course. The KG dash design is > completely different from the other Type 3s, and production costs were > indeed much higher, as you supposed. This was exacerbated by VW's > hot-and-cold mismanagement of KG marketing, imho, which never allowed them > to gain economy of scale. I'm astonished that part of the ground rules for the design wasn't that common parts should be used wherever possible. I'm assuming that the dash was the same width on all type 3s, so the same sheet metal stamping, dash pad, and instruments could have been used. Other companies, like Volvo and BMW certainly produced models in this era where the total production never exceeded 2000 cars, but those cars cost a LOT more. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/