1974 Volkswagen Thing Convertible, Rat Rod Volks Rod, Barn Find on 2040-cars
Massillon, Ohio, United States
hello this a Mexican thing with a 1600 motor. it is the original motor with only 62,500 miles. I bought it from an old fellow who parked it in1990, in his garage, because it started running funny. I bought it and fixed it. the choke was sticking. now it runs great, whistles like a vw should. I put a new gas tank in it, new tires, and a new top. it is ready to go. no rust in the trunk area, or engine compartment. windshield frame is perfect, windshield has a stone chip. doors are solid, not perfect but very good. the pass. side front fender has a small dent where bumper took a light tap. seats are good, lights work, brakes are good. top is alittle tight yet needs to sit out in sun shine to stretch alittle more. it will latch but it is tight. floor pan was patched under battery, and one or two smalls holes I it. but still nice. I will try to show the holes in the pictures. you can drive it home. have the tops of the doors. they are not torn, but the plastic is alittle scratched and slightly yellowed. the body is good some rust here and there, I will try to show in picts. there is a patch under the rear seat by battery in fender well. over all it is in decent shape for its age. looks good but not perfect. runs great . doors come off and windshield folds down like a jeep. good daily driver, beach cruiser, or trail buggy. has a good ohio title. and sells without resevrve. feel free to contact me if you want to come look at it, or want a close up picture of any thing. thanks and have a good one. p.s. having alittle trouble with the pass side top latch I believe do to the top not being relaxed enough yet.
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VW promises 7-seat CUV for America in 2016
Mon, 13 Jan 2014On the eve of the Detroit Auto Show, Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn has confirmed the imminent arrival of a new crossover. The model, previewed at the same show last year by the CrossBlue concept pictured here, will be unique to the North American market when it arrives here in 2016. The new three-row, seven-seat crossover is part of an ambitious expansion plan on the part of Volkswagen and Audi in North America, where the two brands aim to sell a million vehicles by 2018.
That's a mighty big increase over the 600,000 vehicles which the Volkswagen Group sold here last year, but it's moving in the right direction: That number is already a 100-percent increase of what it sold here just five years ago. At that rate, VW should have little trouble meeting its goals, particularly with the arrival of the new crossover and the introduction of Golf production at its assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico. Read the full statement below for more.
Happy 60th to the VW Karmann Ghia
Tue, 20 Aug 2013Volkswagen's product portfolio may be as extensive these days as any other carmaker in the business. But if you still think of the original Beetle as synonymous with the brand, that's probably because a) you're old and b) the Beetle was the company's only product until the mid-50s.
Sixty years ago Wilhelm Karmann (founder of the eponymous coachbuilder) was in Paris for the auto salon and met up with Luigi Segre and his team from Carrozzeria Ghia who showed him what was essentially a "Beetle in a sports coat." A month later they showed it to Volkswagen chief Heinrich Nordhoff who, setting aside his conservative tastes, approved it for production. And so the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia was born, giving the German marque a second product line. It still used Beetle mechanicals and was built at the same Karmann factory in Onsabrück that was already assembling the Beetle Cabriolet.
It took another couple of years to put the design into production, but from 1955 to 1974, Volkswagen and Karmann built 362,601 coupes and 80,881 of the subsequent convertible that arrived in 1957. Today the Onsabrück factory is part of the VW Group, handling production of the Golf Cabriolet, XL1 and Porsche Boxster and Cayman, and with that original Karmann Ghia prototype as part of its factory collection.
VW to relax ambitious US sales targets?
Fri, 16 May 2014The Volkswagen brand sold 407,704 cars last year, a 6.95-percent decline compared to 2012, and it's down a further 8.36 percent through the end of April 2014 compared to this time last year. In order to to put the sales football between its Strategy 2018 goal posts, the brand would need to add 100,000 more sales every year to achieve the lofty 800,000-unit target. Coming to grips with how unreasonable that is, VW US CEO Michael Horn has said, "For now, we have to have realistic targets."
The reasons for the brand's slow-down are imprecise, but lots of folks are throwing lots of reasons around. Last November, VW Group Chairman Ferdinand Piech told Bloomberg, "We understand Europe, we understand China and we understand Brazil, [but] we only understand the US to a certain degree so far." Analysts say the brand hasn't had midsize and compact SUV offerings, especially an overdue retail version of the CrossBlue, and the ones it does have are priced too high for their segments. It "didn't introduce enough new engines, or alternative technologies or model variants" for the Passat and Jetta. It devoted so many resources to China that the US market suffered. It was being outspent two-to-one on advertising by competitors. Its J.D. Power dependability ratings aren't high enough to overcome its past. It "has never really taken the US customer seriously." And so on.
There's still no official admission of defeat concerning the target, but reading between the lines there are some VW execs that appear to accept it won't happen short of some deus ex machina. Still,