This is one of “the” Volkswagens that set us on this journey. Many do not understand an auto enthusiast enthusiasm for a specific brand or in general. My first car was a 1972 volkswagen Squareback. The 411, although strange looking was such a great sight. There was something so nice and yet so odd about it.
Forty years have passed since Volkswagen presented the VW 411, at that time the company’s largest and most powerful model yet, to some 200 journalists in Wolfsburg. The journalists had earlier put the VW 411 through its paces on the new Volkswagen proving ground in Ehra-Lessien, testing the vehicle’s equipment and performance. Volkswagen built 367,728 units until production ceased in July 1974, and 416 of these are currently registered as old-timers. Continue reading ‘40 years ago: VW 411 makes its press debut in Wolfsburg’
