VW TRIVIA

- By Herschel D. -

MARCH’S – ANSWERS

1. Q: VW produced an ambulance model. When did it begin?
   A: 1952

2. Q: What advertising firm was V.O.A. using before they hired DDB to do those wonderful self-knocking ads?
   A: Before the famous VW self-knocking humor using ad campaign began in late 1959 for their 1960 model, VW was using a company called J.M. Mathis for their advertising. The new company was Doyle Dane Bernbach.

3. Q: In what year did VW add a diagnostic plug to the Beetle engine?
   A: 1972

4. Q: For which market was the VW Type 3 originally designed?
   A: The Type 3 was originally, especially designed as a more modern VW that could appeal to American tastes. Yet at first it was not marketed here. In fact their "Notchback" (2-door truck-back sedan) model never was. The car came on the market in 1961. But did not come to the U.S. until the 1966 model.

5. Q: If you ran up on an old, split-window, single cab pickup that came with no rear bumper and had smooth-sided loading gates, what would you have found?
   A: You would be looking at an early production 1952 model, which is the first year for that model.

6. Q: The early VW water-cooled cars such as the Scirocco and Rabbit were the result of VW’s purchase of what other German car makes?
   A: The whole water-cooled line came about as a result of VW’s purchase of Auto Union (Audi) and NSU in the late ‘60s.
   

1. In what year did the U.S.A. get its last shipment of VW Beetle Sedans?

2. Did VW make a flat bed Type 2 during the split-window era?

3. Are the VW models that have been made for or in other countries the same models made for the U.S.A., albeit outfitted differently?

4. By what model name were the early prototype Type-2s known?

5. What is a Type 34?

6. What VW one-off inspired the early VW convertible?