VW Car Repair

Volkswagen’s love Evan’s Auto Care:)  I still remember as a kid playing punch buggie with my friends whenever we came to see dad at work.  Ever since I can remember Ean’s Auto Car has been busy working on these popular cars in the Cincinnati area. VW builds a great car and Evans is proud that we help our customers keep their cars on the road longer. From the Passat to the Jetta we will make sure its running in tip top shape for years to come.

Evan’s routinely performs factory service checkups and factory recalls on Volkswagen Cars, Vans and SUV’s. Our customers come from all over Northern Cincinnati including Montgomery, Tri-County, Sharonville, Kenwood, Hyde Park, Mason, Sycamore and of course Blue Ash.  Some of the VW models we see on a weekly basis are VW Jetta, Bug, Passat, Golf, Eos, GTI & CC.

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VW History

1937-1945: People’s Car project becomes Kübelwagen

Model of Porsche Type 12 (Zündapp), Museum of Industrial Culture, Nuremberg

Volkswagen means “people’s car” in German, where it is pronounced [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡən].  

Volkswagen was originally founded in 1937 by the Nazi trade union, the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront).   In the early 1930s German auto industry was still largely composed of luxury models, and the average German rarely could afford anything more than a motorcycle. Seeking a potential new market, some car makers began independent “peoples’ car” projects – Mercedes’ 170H, Adler’s AutoBahn, Steyr 55, Hanomag 1,3L, among others. The trend was not new, as Béla Barényi is credited with having conceived the basic design in the middle 1920s. Josef Ganzdeveloped the Standard Superior (going as far as advertising it as the “German Volkswagen”).  Also, in Czechoslovakia, the Hans Ledwinka’s penned Tatra T77, a very popular car amongst the German elite, was becoming smaller and more affordable at each revision. In 1933, with many of the above projects still in development or early stages of production, Adolf Hitler declared his intentions for a state-sponsored “Volkswagen” program. Hitler required a basic vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children at 100 km/h (62 mph). The “People’s Car” would be available to citizens of the Third Reich through a savings scheme at 990 Reichsmark, about the price of a small motorcycle (an average income being around 32RM a week).

Volkswagen began introducing an array of new models after Bernd Pischetsrieder became Volkswagen Group CEO (responsible for all Group brands) in 2002. The sixth-generation VW Golf was launched in 2008, came runner-up to the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia in the 2009 European Car of the Year, and has spawned several cousins: VW Jetta, VW Scirocco, SEAT León, SEAT Toledo, Škoda Octavia and Audi A3 hatchback ranges, as well as a new mini-MPV, the SEAT Altea. The GTI, a “hot hatchback” performance version of the Golf, boasts a 2.0 L Turbocharged Fuel Stratified Injection (FSI) direct injection engine. VW began marketing the Golf under the Rabbit name once again in the U.S. and Canada in June 2006. (The GTI had arrived to North America four months earlier). The fifth-generation Jetta, and the performance version, the GLI, are also available in the United States and Canada. The sixth-generation Passat and the fifth-generation Jetta both debuted in 2005, and VW has announced plans to expand its lineup further by bringing back the Scirocco by 2008. Other models in Wolfgang Bernhard’s (Volkswagen brand CEO) “product offensive” include the Tiguanmid-sized SUV in 2008 and a Passat Coupé. In November 2006 Bernd Pischetsrieder announced his resignation as Volkswagen Group CEO, and was replaced by Audi worldwide CEO Martin Winterkorn at the beginning of 2007. Winterkorn is credited with making Audi a challenger to the dominance of BMW and Mercedes, and his design-led strategy has led to Audi being considered one of the most important brands in the world.  Nevertheless, Volkswagen continues to have complicated relations with both unions and shareholders. The German state of Lower Saxonyowns 20% of the stock.

VW history compliments of WIKI

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