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Old 11-17-2017, 10:32 PM   #397 (permalink)
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Recently I've seen many Transporter panel vans (it's hard to not call them simply Kombi as I've always been used to do) being turned into "beer trucks", pics to come.


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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
  • 3 —Ford turned down the whole thing, for free
  • 9 —Volkswagen own Scania and MAN
  • 10 —Under a war-time economy VW employed 15,000 slave laborers.
  • 13 —2002 Nardo Concept World record 9809 miles at 200mph.
Those I actually knew. Volkswagen and MAN trucks are available through the same dealerships in my country, but Scania has a different dealers network.

When it comes to Ford turning down the Beetle, it might be a sign of that "not-invented-here syndrome" that rendered the Big Three less competitive in regional exports and overseas markets right after the oil crisis in the '70s.
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