Re: VW's early watercooled history via Audi and NSU (was Re: [T3] SB with IV engine--was Wasser engine)

[Jens Vagelpohl <jens@type4.org>]

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On Feb 24, 2005, at 18:52, Constantino Tobio wrote:
> respectively). I'll betcha that the Type 4 borrowed heavily from Audi 
> construction ideas married to VW's existing powertrain technologies, 
> and that the next leap was to get engineering expertise to marry 
> watercooling and FWD transaxles to unibody construction.

The Type 4 was in development before the Auto Union-purchase, and I 
believe most of the technological choices had already been made by the 
time the engineers from both companies started sticking their heads 
together :)

jens

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