VW of Brazil RARE images

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As VW of Brazil was losing its sharing with the Brasilia and other car makes, they decided to make some upgrades on the Variant, specially on the front suspension (changing the traditional torsion-bar for the more modern McPherson unit), and having a similar VW Brasilia design, nicknamed "Bigger Brasilia". It stayed in the market until 1981.
Here are some ads, for the "new" Variant II:

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Now posting somw great images on the first "station-wagon" made by VW of Brazil: the Variant.
Released at the end of 1969, it had a great success among brazilian families that needed a simple, reliable way of travelling with their belongings.
Here are some great ads & images taken from our archives:

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incredible pictures and information - thanks!

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VW Line-up models parked in front of the complex buildings at São Bernardo do Campo - SP, 1971

Front row, from left to right: the traditional Karmann-Ghia Type 3 1600, the Variant, the VW Sedan 1300 Type 1, the VW 1600 Four-door, the VW 1500 "Fuscão" Type 1, the VW 1600 TL and the Karmann-Ghia TC
Back row: the Type 2 models, from left to right - Utility Van, the Kombi Standard, the Pick-up truck and The Kombi de Luxe.

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Another frame, now front:

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The two Karmann-Ghia bodies made back in 1970: the brand-new TC on the left, the traditional model on the right.

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The second VW car passenger produced in Brazil: thre Four Door"

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Some new images I took from our SP-1/SP-2 archives:

The reunion of the SP-2 Club of Brazil, some owners take their pride & joy

Mr. Piancastelli, giving some minor retouches to a SP-2 prototype-scale for wind-tunnel tests, back in 1971:

VW employees having fun with the scale-model, 1971

The first 1:1 scale prototype, 1971

On the test-tracks, 1972

VW of Brazil complete line-up, 1973

SP-2 folders & ads, 1972 - 1974

Having a close talk with a brazilian chick on the street, 1973

Tests on foreign magazines, 1973

These two SP-2 were actually exported to Germany, recently:

In front of the HUGE VW Complex assembly line at São bernardo do Campo - SP, recent image:

HAVE FUN !!!!

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Another curiosity; the VW Brasilia Export catalogue, the 1977 year model:

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Another HUGE success for VW of Brazil: the Brasilia model, designed by the same team that made the sporty SP-1/SP-2, this one used a VW Variant shorter and slightly larger wheelbase, the body reminisced the Mini and the large windows gave a bigger sensation of space.
The Brasilia model was an instant success on the brazilian market and sold almost a million cars in a ten-year production run, starting life back in 1973 till 1982. VW of Brazil decided to phase it out with the coming of the VW Gol, another great success too.

A curiosity: the VW Brasilia Four-Door, made for export since 1976 and sold in Brazil only three years later, 1979:

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Mario,
Thanks so much fo all this great information, and I do hope you are putting the images in the archival photo section of this site as these should be historically preserved.

Can you tell me if Brazil had any relationship with Mexico on the Beetle production?
Linda
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Have a close look on these images, and see how VW of Brazil used to give importance on the technical data for its products back in the Seventies !!
Enjoy !!!

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VW of Brazil was decided to phase out production on the traditional Karmann-Ghia style, so they decided to create a new design: the TC, badged as "Touring Comfort", so the car had four seats, a bigger space for luggage and a great resemblance on the Porsche 911. It used the famous "pancake" aitr-cooled engine, shared with the Variant, TL and SP-1/SP-2 models.
Production started back in 1970 and they stayed on the market until 1976, when the last units rolled off the assembly line.
The TC hasn´t gathered much attention from our classic car market, but as the traditional K-G is getting higher and higher prices, the TC´s more affordable numbers are rising value from the last years.
Enjoy !

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In Brazil we had a decade of production on this iconic model, from 1962 till 1972. They are very rare nowadays due to few survivor cars, but the make sucess in the car meets. The convertible version is even rarer, with mere 177 units produced only in 1967 thru 1969. We believe that less than a dozen of these original "Verts survived nowadays.

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I wish I could read those ads!

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