Harakteristiki Metropoliten. The price ' a Volkswagen '

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Already the car under the name ' Metropoliten ' was slightly more and more hard, than its prototype ' NEI ', but in all the rest anything from it did not differ. Despite the fact that what have presented it as the American car, ' Metropoliten ' actually was English model as its engine, the transmission and a body were made at firm factories ' Austin '.

Similarly ' NEI ', it was double, however the forward part of its salon was more spacious, than at the majority of import small-sized models, including at ' a Volkswagen '. Its 52-strong engine was much more powerful than engines of similar import cars, and the suspension bracket system obviously reminded applied on cars of the American manufacture. This model was guided mainly by bachelors or on childless married couples with which the sizes and the price ' a Volkswagen ' but which would prefer the American mark could involve.

In 1953 when a sales volume of foreign motor vehicles with a body of type the sedan was insignificant in the USA, the market of such models hardly probable was a little considerable. However if ' Metropoliten ' could grasp an essential share even this market, intrusion ' a Volkswagen ' could be suspended, and by means of the car of the firm which were not a part ' of the big three '.

Characteristics ' Metropoliten ' made impressive impression. Though on the comfort it did not differ from other small-sized sedans, its weight was the greatest in this class of cars - 853 kg.