VW: End of the road for VW's air-cooled engine

We already reported about the end of production for VW's air-cooled engine, which was used in the VW Bus, but now South African "Motoring" has some nice production pics from the factory.

Brand-new Volkswagen Kombis sputter into life as they come off the assembly line in the VW factory 32km south of the city after a manufacturing ritual barely changed since hippies turned the boxy vehicle into a counterculture icon.

They go straight to work on the streets of Brazil's largest cities for deliveries of all kinds, as ambulances, mobile convenience stores and even troop transports, rather than heading on long, strange trips across Latin America's largest country.

But a long chapter in the history of Volkswagen will end on Friday (December 23) when the last air-cooled engine will be installed in a vehicle seen as a museum piece almost everywhere else.

GermanCarBlog, VW

Source: Motoring

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