Brochure Line

In which recent purchasers of the ‘old’ T3 air-cooled Microbus spit fire and blood

- RICHARD COPPING

First a complaint; VW South Africa please put a date on your publicity material. This month’s brochure, an eight-page fold-out, printed on stronger than average paper (bordering on the card), probably dates from 1983 or ‘84, as its theme is one of comparing the old air-cooled 2.0-liter T3 engine with the newly introduced 1.9 water-cooled offerings. However, clever marketing types eke out good news, so might well have been describing the water-cooled engine as new in 1985.