GERMAN LIGHT CAR
FAILURE IN BRITISH TESTS (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent) LONDON, Aug. 14. Extensive tests of the German Volkswagen (people's car) in Britain have proved the car unable to stand up to British conditions, and as the result plans for mass production in this country have been dropped. The German cars were tested in London traffic and over typical country roads, but developed over-heating and frenuent chassis and axle fractures. At present the Volkswagen factory at Wolfsbur is producing 200 models a month for the use of the British Control Commission but it is expected that a surplus will shortly be available for sale to the German public. The car costs about £IOO to produce, and has justified claims that the petrol consumption is over 70 miles a gallon. The Ministry of Supply, which sponsored the tests of the Volkswagen, is now examining proposals to manufacture 7 h.p. Italian Fiats in Britain.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26232, 16 August 1946, Page 7
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152GERMAN LIGHT CAR Otago Daily Times, Issue 26232, 16 August 1946, Page 7
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