Ok, so it may be a 3 cyl, or 4, but the engine will live in the back.

Economical peeples kar aside, obviously they going for some kind of
nostalgic marketing angle, but wouldn't it be a safer vehicle with the
engine up front?

Are they trying to get back to their true roots of the collapsable
Peeples Kar ? --- ;^)

Neil

On 9/11/07, BJ Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:
> Whoah, let me get this straight. VW is going to build a small , inexpensive
> 2 door sedan with a rear engine that gets great gas mileage? A car almost
> anyone can afford?
>
> Whooda thought....
>
> Next thing you know they'll find a way to put that engine into a boxy
> "truck" type body.
>
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Jake de Villiers
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:24 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: new VW model has rear engine "waterboxer"
>
> Pix available here:
> http://www.germancarblog.com/2007/08/vw-city-expert-rear-engine-officially.h
> tml
>
> On 9/11/07, Paul Guzyk <paullist@guzyk.com> wrote:
> >
> > VW announces today the City Expert in Frankfurt, a new car powered by
> > a rear mounted boxer engine.
> >
> > I wonder if it will make it to North America?    Could be a space
> > efficient small car if they do it well.....hopefully this engine is
> > designed better than the one used in Vanagons...
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/237qvp
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>

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