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Karmann no more
karmannghia60 - June 25th, 2009 at 09:48 AM

I guess the Karmann Ghia willnever be back now :(

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/23/karmann-go-legendary-coachbuilder-shuts-do...

Raf

vwsteve - June 25th, 2009 at 10:02 AM

we will have to restore as many old ones as we can to make up for it:cool:

Yogie - June 25th, 2009 at 10:19 AM

:sniffle::sniffle::sniffle:

rob53 - June 25th, 2009 at 10:21 AM

That's sad news, hopefully some part of the company can be salvaged rather than disappearing completely.

Phil74Camper - June 25th, 2009 at 03:17 PM

Volkswagen hasn't used Karmann for a number of years now, except for the Audi 80 cabrio, and the parts for the New Beetle Cabrio top. The VW Eos is built in house in VW's state of the art plant in Portugal, along with the Scirocco. Likewise VW's campers are made in-house nowadays, at the Hanover plant.

Yes very sad. But then Ghia was bought by Ford years ago, and Westfalia is owned now by Mercedes Benz. Even Steyr-Damiler-Puch, makers of the VW Syncro system, were broken up and restructured in the 1990s.

Recessions have a way of clearing out the unviable car makers.