Volkswagen Brasilia

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Volkswagen Brasilia
Volkswagen
aka	Brasília
Production	1973-1982 (More than 950.000 units sold in Brazil)
Class	Compact car
Body Style	2 doors hatchback
Length	4100mm
Width	1605mm
Height	Height - type here
Wheelbase	2400mm
Weight	890kg
Transmission	4-speed manual transmissoin
Engine	four-cylinder, boxer, air-cooled, rear engine, rear drive
Power	60 hp @ 4600 rpm 12 m.kgf @ 2.600 rpm
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Designer	Marcio Piancastelli

At September 1970, brazilian's Volkswagen president Rudolf Leiding, made a challenge for the company's major designers. He wanted to recriate the Beetle, in a brazilian way. The Beetle, the Bus and the Karmann-Ghia were the only VW cars with air-cooled engines that made success at that time in Brazil. For Leiding, the new Volkswagen should be practical, economical and larger than the Beetle, using it's reliable engineering. In three months, more than 40 projects were made, most of them with bold designs, with wide, inclined windshields. But the prototypes were expensive and VW was looking for a new cheap car, to compete with the brand new Chevette, from Chevrolet. The name Brasilia is a tribute from Volkswagen to Brazil's capital: Brasília

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Gas Mileage

The 1974 Volkswagen Brasilia, with dual carburetors, could ran 10.4Km with one liter of gasoline on a highway. The urban fuel consumption is around 14km/L.

Engine and Transmission

At it's debut, the Braslia had a 4-cylinder, air-cooled boxer engine with one carburetor. The rear-engine, rear-wheel drive had a gearbox with 4 speeds. In the 80's, Volkswagen also offered an alcohol-engine option, with 1300cm³ and 49HP.

Performance

The brazilian car magazine Quatro Rodas made a comparative test between the VW Brasilia and it's main competitor, the GM Chevette, in March 1980. In the accelaration test, Chevette proved to be more quick than the air-cooled VW: as the Chevrolet took 19,7 seconds to go from 0 to 100km/h, the Brasilia did the same thing, but with 23 seconds. Chevette's max speed was 138km/h and Brasilia could reach only 129km/h. At the fuel consumption test, the Chevrolet won again, making 15,4km/L. The Volkswagen ran 13,4km/L on that day. Due to it's rear-engine rear-drive, the car wasn't very stable at high speeds and some Brasilia owners modified the car's suspension to make the VW lower (and than less unstable). Some people also changed the 5,90 x 14 original tires to 175/80-14 radial tires. To stop the car, Brasilia was equipped with disk brakes at the front wheels and drum brakes at the rear wheels.

Safety

At 1977, Brasilia started to use dual circuit brakes and it's steering wheel was modified to be safer in case of colission.

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• Http://quatrorodas.abril.com.br/classicos/brasileiros/imagens/0205brasilia abre.jpg

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