--- Chris Kennedy <chris(a)mainecoon.com> wrote:
  Ethan Dicks wrote:
  Hardly... a BMW has that large finny thing in the
front that serves no
 purpose in a Beetle.  A Porche is an overpriced Beetle.   
 About the only things that a Porsche and a VW have in common are
 ancestors that were designed by engineering teams led by the same
 individual.   
I have a couple later Type IIs, one 1975 and one 1976 Microbus.  They use
the same engine as a Porche 914, but, OTOH, I have heard the 914 decried
as not a "true" Porche.
-ethan
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