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...VOLKSWAGEN SALES grow despite success of U.S. compacts. World's fourth-largest auto producer, reports worldwide sales up 30% in 1959 to record $835 million. Volkswagen now accounts for 40.5% of all West German auto production. Volkswagen sales in the U.S.: 120,000 autos in 1959 v. 78,000 in 1958. Sales this year are up from...
...Greenbrier Sports Wagon, which closely resembles the Volkswagen Micro-Bus, with the driver's seat set over the front axle in a boxlike body over a 95-in. wheelbase. The Greenbrier, turned out in gay colors and suitable as a small bus, mobile office or camping car, carries up to nine passengers. There is a panel version of the Greenbrier for use as a delivery van. ¶Two pickup trucks that are built on the same short wheelbase as the Greenbrier and have a closed cab with open cargo space behind. One of the models has a side ramp...
...sort of model changes that Romney approves of were announced last week by Volkswagen, partly in answer to the success of the U.S. compacts. The 1961 Volkswagen has 27 changes, mostly mechanical, but few of them are obvious to the eye. Engine power has been boosted to 40 h.p. from 36 h.p., and the Volks has a new carburetor, a new automatic choke and a bigger luggage area. Unlike Detroit. Volkswagen makes its mechanical changes throughout the year, has yet to make a major model-styling change on what is essentially a 1938 design...
CORVAIR COMPACT BUS will be introduced by Chevrolet this fall to compete with Volkswagen's junior-sized bus, selling at the rate of 36,000 annually in U.S. this year. To be called the Greenbrier, the six-cylinder Chevrolet bus will closely resemble the Volkswagen in appearance, sell for about...
Beneath the low-slung hood snorts a cocky engine that is even smaller than the put-putter of the family Volkswagen (1,100 cc. v. 1,192 cc.). But everything else about the racing machine is big league, from the rakish cut of its body to its four-speed gearbox and cat-footed suspensions. Last week a buzzing swarm of the precocious big-little cars performed before an audience of 5,000 at Lime Rock, Conn, in a battle of agility and speed that was finally won by Harry Carter in a Lotus with an average speed of 78.18 m.p.h...