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Tue May 06, 2008 3:20 pm

i need to write a 2000 word report on how vw is enviroment friendly? i have 500 words but am stuck. everyone tell me all you know on vws enviormental ways and what not.

Tue May 06, 2008 3:23 pm

VW Brasil's cars run on ethanol made from sugar cane.

They don't toss out old tooling when a new model comes up. They still make Mk1 watercooleds in South Africa, and Mk2's in China.

Tue May 06, 2008 3:38 pm

no filters to throw away and no antifreeze to dump.
got very good mileage since the beggining
motors are cheap and easy therefore eliminating the costs to crush or make a new one...the body is recycled over and over.

Tue May 06, 2008 3:49 pm

People don't just throw old parts away, the sell them on TheSamba.

Tue May 06, 2008 3:51 pm

NOT IF THERE is nowhere to put them....seriously im not playing. i have had to throw away lots of stuff.

Tue May 06, 2008 4:00 pm

Recycling of the vehicle over 40+ years saves on greenhouse gases used in auto production.

Tue May 06, 2008 4:41 pm

Crushing all of them will put lots of quality steel back into the manufacturing line- but at a higher energy cost, so keeping em around does you ok that way. Of course, the increased emmissions vs modern pollution control is alway good for an argument. Then you can discuss the millions of man hours wasted devising cars to compete against AC VW's, when VW, like the model T, did exactly what it was designed to do- get a population on wheels...

F'christ sake, do your own effing home work.

Tue May 06, 2008 5:05 pm

alindeman1989 wrote: i have 500 works but am stuck. everyone tell me all you know on vws enviormental ways and what not.

might want to spell check those first 500 words.. :roll:

Wed May 07, 2008 5:04 am

The emissions have forever been an issue with the motors, luckily they don't leak oil everywhere like some vehicles do.

Wed May 07, 2008 6:06 pm

69 Jim wrote: luckily they don't leak oil everywhere like some vehicles do.

Whaaaa?

Wed May 07, 2008 6:20 pm

SkrapMetal wrote: 69 Jim wrote: luckily they don't leak oil everywhere like some vehicles do.

Whaaaa?

:lol:

Wed May 07, 2008 9:24 pm

Relative to big uncontrolled V-8 engines of the '50s and '60s, the ACVW engine was clean. But as emission regs tightened, the wide temp variations of the AC motor made it too hard to control, or at least uneconomical, so the advantage was lost.

The good MPG makes for lower CO2, but greenhouse gas issues weren't thought important at the time. Now we know better.

VW today does a lot to ensure recycle ease of its new cars, some of which is required by law in Europe now.