1973 Volkswagen Thing on 2040-cars
Riverside, California, United States
Fuel Type:GAS
Engine:2180 cc
Mileage: 9,551
Model: Thing
Trim: Convertible
Year: 1973
Drive Type: Manual
Make: Volkswagen
1973 VW Thing Excellent daily driver,
while it is not a 1% classic car it has won 1st and 2nd place in
amateur car shows in Southern California since Custom restoration in 2010 Items completed in 2010
restoration 1st the Mechanical (New items) 2180. cc
engine with progressive EMPI carb, heavy-duty starter, heavy-duty fuel pump,
heavy-duty alternator, heavy-duty ignition coil, heavy-duty fuel filter and
fuel hoses High
performance cable clutch Custom
geared transmission to fit oversized rear tires Front disk
breaks Electronic
ignition Tachometer
gauge Oil pressure
gage/Secondary 3-quart oil sump External oil
filter External oil
cooler Steel
Breaded oil lines Securities
kill Switch Halogen
headlights Running
light fixtures OEM spear
tire Heavy-duty
muffler (Rebuilt items) Rebuilt
wiper motor (2nd the cosmetic) Full
body paint Fully powered
leather front seats with butt warmers (Seats are
out of a 2002 Lexus) New
upholstery on rear seat New seat
belts (over the shoulder in front and lap in the rear) New soft-top
with drop in windows Centerline
rims with new tires New Pioneer stereo with premium sound
(AM/FM/CD/AUX IN PUT) Custom built
Full roll bar New Rally
tube trim kit (running boards, front luggage rack front and rear bumpers) New locking
glove box door New
anti-glare review mirror New side
mirrors New chrome
trim Pan was coat
with rhino bed coating (top &bottom) New door
trim New
windshield New Center counsel
(with cup holders and storage trays) Used Fiberglass hardtop (unit is used faded
and needs to be painted, but is good solid condition) |
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Auto execs surveyed say VW, BMW most likely to grow
Thu, 17 Jan 2013A new survey of top global automotive executives indicates both Volkswagen and BMW are the most likely to grow their market share over the next five years.
Tax advisory firm KPMG LLP has released its 14th annual Global Automotive Executive Survey, which includes responses from over 200 executives. A total of 81 percent of respondents said they expect to see Volkswagen make gains, compared to 70 percent last year. BMW, meanwhile, saw 70 percent of those surveyed say they believe the company will increase its market share. That's a jump of 7 percentage points over last year. This is the first time in the history of the survey that BMW has claimed the second-place spot.
Meanwhile, Hyundai has seen its perceived market share potential slacken for the third year in a row. Around 61 percent of those surveyed predicted gains for Hyundai, down from 63 in 2012. Toyota also has a surprising year, but for just the opposite reason. While the manufacturer had slipped in ranking since 2011, it enjoyed the largest increase of any company in the 2013 survey, jumping to 68 percent from 44 percent last year.
VW going turbo-only in 3 to 4 years
Wed, 18 Sep 2013This really was a matter of when, rather than if. Volkswagen will apparently be the first manufacturer to phase out naturally aspirated engines in favor of turbocharging its full slate. VW is kind of responsible for ushering in this push towards small-displacement, turbocharged engines that's taken the industry by storm. When it dropped its direct-injection, 2.0-liter turbo in the 2005 GTI it demonstrated that strapping an iron long to an engine can enhance the powertrain as a whole. VW made fuel economy gains, while also giving a linear, non-laggy turbo experience that it has replicated, model-after-model, to this day.
Speaking with The Detroit News, Volkswagen's executive Vice President of Group Quality, Marc Trahan, told the paper that, "We only have one normally aspirated gas engine, and when we go to the next generation vehicle that it's in, it will be replaced. So three, four years maximum."
Really, it's hard to get teary-eyed about either of these engines going away. VW has access to smaller powerplants that could easily match the performance of the 2.5 five-cylinder and the 3.6 V6, while gobbling up less fuel and providing a better driving experience. What we are sad about is that a similar statement about the extinction of NA engines came from the Vice President of Powertrain Engineering at Ford, Joe Bakaj. We'd certainly get teary-eyed over a world without Ford's excellent 5.0-liter V8.
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,
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