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The Volkswagen K70 (pronounced as "ka siebzig" in German) is a sedan automobile produced by both NSU and Volkswagen from 1969 to 1974. The K70 was the first VW to have a front-mounted watercooled engine. VW K70, cleaned up press photo This work is copyrighted. ... VW K70, cleaned up press photo This work is copyrighted. ... A Ford Taurus, a typical 1990s sedan. ... NSU Motorenwerke AG (normally just NSU) was a German manufacturer of cars and motorcycles. ... Volkswagen (VW) is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

The K70 was originally developed by NSU as a smaller brother to the more famous Ro 80, the main difference being that the K70 used a conventional piston engine instead of the Ro80's more complicated Wankel rotary engine. The name "K70" referred to the fact that the engine had a power output of 70 bhp (52 kW), the "K" denoting the German word "Kolben", meaning Piston. NSU Ro 80 The NSU Ro 80 was a technologically advanced large sedan-type automobile produced by the German firm of NSU from 1967 until 1977. ... Dr. Felix Heinrich Wankel (August 13, 1902–October 9, 1988) was the German inventor of the Wankel engine. ...

In 1969, just as the car was about to be launched, NSU was taken over by Volkswagen, who integrated the Neckarsulm company with Auto-Union/Audi, which it had acquired in 1964. VW was in desperate need for a new family sedan to replace the unsuccessful Type 4, which itself was intended to replace the Beetle. Thinking that the K70, featuring front wheel drive and modern styling was the perfect way to transform its image, the Wolfsburg firm quickly scrapped publicity material showing the K70 badged as an NSU, and instead put it into production as a Volkswagen. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Auto Union was the joint venture of four German automobile manufacturers established in 1932 in Zwickau, Saxony during the Great Depression. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The VW Type 4 was a medium sized 2 or 4 door sedan or 2 door station wagon built by Volkswagen. ... The Volkswagen Beetle or Bug is a small family car, the best known car of Volkswagen, of Germany, and almost certainly the world. ... Weser watershed Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...

Despite the different badging, buyers tarred the K70 with the same brush as its unreliable Ro 80 sister car, leading to poor sales. The K70 also became notorious for serious corrosion problems, and very few have survived as a result. It was replaced in 1973 by the Audi-based Volkswagen Passat. 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Press photograph of the newly merged Audi NSU range, 1969. ... The Volkswagen Passat is a midsized car built by Volkswagen AG. It falls between the VW Golf/Jetta and VW Phaeton in the current VW production line-up. ...

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