Pleasure to Icon.
The VW brand has a shaded history in the twenth-century and has now come in for more dishonesty in relation to its cars having the abilty to give false readings. I expect we will be hearing more about this for a long time yet, because many manufacturers are telling lies about the performance of their machines!
Todays models of the classic camper are far more advanced and one feels that something has been lost in the box designs compared to that of the 1950', 60's vehicles. VW originally developed this van for its West-German paramilitary police in several chassis versions and all were based on World War-II ideas to improve thier amphibious scout car.
In 1946 the iconic shape was developed to run along side that of the Beattle car and they both were extremly sucessfull in taking the world market for sales.
The main reason being both had simple constructed engines that were easy to fix and manintain and the parts were also cheap.
Showing posts with label Iconic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iconic. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Volkswagen VW Camper vans. Part-One.
An Iconic Vehicle.
Everywhere that I have been in the world, one has come across this iconic vehicle, which became a symbol of the 1960's 'Hippie movement' and remains a favourite fun camper.
Last year VW ended its production line for this camper, but it will continue now to be more of a classic collectors item. What made it great was perhaps it offered a unlimited choice of combination colour schemes and it was also compact and comfortable.
The secondhand market for this version flourished making like the original VW Beetle a cheap easy to maintain sought after van.
Everywhere that I have been in the world, one has come across this iconic vehicle, which became a symbol of the 1960's 'Hippie movement' and remains a favourite fun camper.
Last year VW ended its production line for this camper, but it will continue now to be more of a classic collectors item. What made it great was perhaps it offered a unlimited choice of combination colour schemes and it was also compact and comfortable.
The secondhand market for this version flourished making like the original VW Beetle a cheap easy to maintain sought after van.
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
London Transport.
The Route Master Replacement.
They have called it the Boris bus, after the Mayor of Greater London Boris Johnson. Some have called it 'the toy town bus, apart from other things. London Transport did replace 'Old Faithful' with the Mercedez bendy bus, but over time it has had teething problems in traffic and taking corners.
Every city, wither in the UK or in any country needs a iconic symbol for their respective transport networks. We had the famous red bus, the route master, now we may have just a longer version of it.
The glass stairwell was designed in such a way as any assaults on passengers by others would be seen from the outside. This part of the bus was always a problematic area.
They have called it the Boris bus, after the Mayor of Greater London Boris Johnson. Some have called it 'the toy town bus, apart from other things. London Transport did replace 'Old Faithful' with the Mercedez bendy bus, but over time it has had teething problems in traffic and taking corners.
Every city, wither in the UK or in any country needs a iconic symbol for their respective transport networks. We had the famous red bus, the route master, now we may have just a longer version of it.
The glass stairwell was designed in such a way as any assaults on passengers by others would be seen from the outside. This part of the bus was always a problematic area.
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