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The VW Type 4 was a medium sized 2 or 4 door sedan or 2 door station wagon built by Volkswagen. It was produced between the 1969 and 1974 model years. It was larger than the VW Type 3 and had a more powerful engine. The Type 3 and Type 4 were the last of VW's air cooled models and preceded the massively successful VW Golf. This article is about the type of car. ...
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The Volkswagen Type 3 was introduced in 1961 by Volkswagen to diversify their product range beyond the Type 1 Beetle and the Type 2 Bus. The Type 3, officially the Volkswagen 1500, was designed to allow Volkswagen to make a more sophisticated car while maintaining much of the engineering from...
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 A VW 412 sedan, 1974 model The Type 4 introduced many firsts to the VW line of cars. These firsts included: monocoque chassis (unibody), MacPherson strut front suspension, rear suspension with coil springs and trailing wishbones, hydraulic clutch (manual transmission), and the first fully automatic transmission in a VW (previous cars used an automatic (vacuum-actuated) clutch, but still had to be shifted manually). It was also VW's first 4 door sedan. The McPherson strut were later succesfully used in the super-VW-beetle, also known as 1303 Beetle. Image File history File links Volkswagen Type 4 (412) Model File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Monocoque (French for single shell) or unibody is a construction technique that uses the external skin of an object to support some or most of the load on the structure. ...
The Type 4 included the 411 (produced from 1968 to 1972) and the 412 (produced in 1973 and 1974). Each model included a sedan (fastback) and a station wagon version. Both models were fuel injected, one of the first mass production vehicles to include this feature after the Volkswagen Type 3 (which also began fuel injection in 1968).
The Type 4 was reputedly a favorite project of VW head Heinz Nordhoff, who felt that the larger vehicle would be attractive to families in North America.
While the VW Beetle's battery was located under the rear seat, the Type 4 battery was located under the driver's seat.
While the Type 4 model was discontinued in 1974, the Type 4 engine became the power plant for the 1972 through 1979 VW Type 2 Transporter (the VW van), and continued in modified form in the VW Vanagon (air-cooled from 1980 through mid-1983, and water-cooled from late 1983 through 1991).
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