“VOLKSWAGEN" TROUBLES

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 171, 19 April 1939, Page 4

“VOLKSWAGEN" TROUBLES

OAR FOR GERMAN PEOPLE '■» WILL -IT BE; MANUFACTURED? . According to London press* reports, the future of the Volkswagen, or German people’s car, | seems to be in the melting-pot.* Prototypes of tin's ear were built, and-■{ .their specifications given wide publicity. These original specifications now .'seem to have been scrapped, and it- bs stated that not even the directors *of the organisation formed to manufacture it can state' with any certainty wliat form the car will eventually take. Another worry which has held up manufacture is the • difficulty in ob-taining-the raw materials necessary for the first 2<J(),OUO, wiiiyh, the German press claims, have been ordered by the public already. Substitutes of v German origin arc proving far from satisfactory, so that tlie future of the car seems to he completely wrapped in*.mastery. ' *■' Jn the meantime, English observers are now inclined to view the grandiose • scheme rather sceptically, on the girbhnds that it will be difficult for large numbers of the German people to car which will cost the equivalent of £1 per week to operate. For this reason, they believe that the Volkswagen, if and wjjeii it appears, is destined more for export than the homo markets.