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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Sven, is that bus one of the ones running the in-line 4cyl water coolled engine, the 1.4 ? The front end looks like this (for a radiator).
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I believe it was a 1.6 gas boxer. Definitely aircooled. It's basically a bay body with a split greenhouse.
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Originally Posted by Galane
Hmmm. Ever more weird VW's. Never heard of a water cooled bus until the much later squared off vanagon.
And now for something completely different, yet aerodynamic. The 1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen. Rumpler Tropfenwagen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia VW wind tunnel tested it in 1979 and found it to have a drag coefficient of .28, a value VW wouldn't achieve until the 1988 Passat. |
Those watercooled bays are still produced in South America, so technically they are later than even Eurovans.
I'm familiar with the Rumpler. Quite a sweet car. Too bad so many were wrecked in the filming of Metropolis.