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EMPI is a company that produces aftermarket performance parts for various air-cooled Volkswagens.EMPI was not one of the brands that led to the demise of B. F. Meyers & Co., the company that produced the Meyers Manx (one of the first air-cooled Volkswagen based buggies).
Bradley Automotive began selling their first product, the Bradley GT, in 1970. [4] Like the earlier products of Gary's Bug Shop, the car was built on the chassis of the original Volkswagen Beetle. Interest in the new GT was generated by advertising widely in a broad range of popular magazines.
The number of Beetle units sold by Volkswagen was at its lowest in the 1980s. The Beetle faced competition from Japanese automakers such as Toyota and Honda, whose cars were uprated in reliability and performance. The closure of Volkswagen's Pennsylvania factory was due to high costs, subpar quality, and poor sales.
In 1970 they unveiled a new sports coupe called the Trivellato Shark. The Shark was built on a standard-length VW platform with a 1,300 cc (79 cu in) twin-carburetor engine tuned by Kadron. [92] The company claimed that this was an original Trivellato design whose shape was created by combining features from many other cars. [92]
1970 VW Squareback (Type III) Volkswagen added a "Super Beetle" [33] (the Type 131) to its lineup in 1971. The Type 131 differed from the standard Beetle in its use of a MacPherson strut front suspension instead of the usual torsion bars. The Super Beetle featured a new hooded, padded dash and curved windshield (from 1973 model year on up).
The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is an air-cooled, gasoline-fuelled, boxer engine with four horizontally opposed cast-iron cylinders, cast aluminum alloy cylinder heads and pistons, magnesium-alloy crankcase, and forged steel crankshaft and connecting rods.
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