A real blast from VW’s past
Volkswagen’s flat-four engine has been shoehorned into a dizzying variety of different applications, including gliders, tractors, bikes, dragsters, buses – the big, public service kind, not just Type 2s – snowmobiles, snowploughs and ski-lifts. Then there have been compressors, boats, hovercraft, aeroplanes and even one madcap scheme for a car that could both fly AND float. However, that never came to fruition… we can’t imagine why.
Such air-cooled antics were possible because, from 1950 to 1991, Volkswagen made industrial variants of its engines,
