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ENOUGH HATE - How about some love, some VW-love.....for the 100 millionth VW!!!




http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0%2C2106%2C3293450a30%2C00.html



VW joins 100-million club 
26 May 2005  

The 100 millionth Volkswagen (VW) has rolled off a German assembly line,
taking the brand into an elite group of four car firms whose output has
stretched into nine digits, Europe's biggest carmaker says. 


The Touran compact van, with a silver- metallic paint job, that set the
milestone at VW's headquarters in Wolfsburg, is only distantly related
to the humble Volkswagen Beetle that became a global icon of affordable
mobility after World War 2. 

Volkswagen ? the name means "people's car" in German ? made only 1800
Beetles in 1945, but eventually produced 21.5m of the bug-shaped,
bug-eyed vehicles. 

Output of the VW Golf overtook the Beetle in 2002 and has hit 23m. VW
has also made 13m Passats and 9m Polos. Until now, only Ford, Toyota and
Chevrolet had topped 100m vehicles. ?Reuters 


(...and 200,000+ of those are OUR little gems..... :D  )


Dan Snow -TPA, FL
'87 16v Scirocco
'87 16v    -occo (? car-trailer)
'82 DIESEL Scirocco (*NEW and IMPROVED daily driver)
'81 Rabbit Sportruck
'87 16v Scirocco (back-up shell)


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