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Last of the VW air-cooled engines to roll off the assembly line

Last of the VW air-cooled engines to roll off the assembly line (with the classic VW Kombi minibus) in Brazil this Friday.

Wow! I had no idea these vehicles were still in production. I knew the old air-colled VW Beetle was still being made in Mexico up until fairly recently, but I had forgotten about VW's Brazilian factory...


"It's the end of a very long era," said Ivan McCutcheon, editor of Britain's VolksWorld magazine for fans of the vans and now-out-of production VW traditional beetles. "The VW air-cooled engine has been perhaps the greatest produced engine in numbers the world has seen. "

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