The second stream goes beyond the sentimental sound and encompasses a range of modifications from a complete engine swap to a thorough upgrade on the traction of Trabant, leaving only the body to hide a modern powerful car underneath ( e. g. the Sascha Fiss ' Volkswagen Lupo GTI ).

In the late 1990s consumers strongly preferred more modern cars such as the Mexican Chevy, the Nissan Tsuru, and the Volkswagen Pointer and Lupo.

At that time this was the site of the Alta Lake dump, and the remains of a Volkswagen Van are still buried under the modern village.

In May 1974, Volkswagen presented the first-generation Golf as a modern front-wheel-drive, long-range replacement for the Volkswagen Beetle.

On the continent, the Taunus version was competing with more modern and practical designs like the Talbot Alpine, Volkswagen Passat and Opel Ascona, but the brand image of Ford's blue oval ensured the Cortina was a success in virtually every country where it was sold.

By that time it was feeling very dated in comparison with more modern rivals like the Volkswagen Golf.

The Kadett clearly featured a much more modern design than the Volkswagen Beetle which then dominated the market for small family cars in West Germany and various surrounding countries.

The first generation of the Volkswagen Type 2 with the split windshield, informally called the Microbus, Splitscreen, or Splittie among modern fans, was produced from 8 March 1950 through the end of the 1967 model year.

Following the Volkswagen Group's acquisition of Audi in 1964, Volkswagen used new engineering expertise to develop a modern front-wheel drive car with a water-cooled engine, and thus the Passat and Golf ( the latter being introduced in 1974 ) were the first of a new generation of Volkswagen cars.

The Passat was one of the most modern European family cars at the time, and was intended as a replacement for the aging Volkswagen Type 3 and Type 4.

Towards the end of the 1970s, the Avenger was being increasingly outclassed by the new generation of modern front-wheel drive hatchbacks such as the Volkswagen Golf, Vauxhall Astra and Fiat Ritmo / Strada, although this was less of a problem following the launch of the Horizon hatchback in late 1977.

The reality was a take over of NSU by Volkswagen, and during 1969 the Neckarsulm company was integrated with Auto Union, which Volkswagen had acquired from Daimler Benz in 1964-in turn creating the basis of the modern day Audi company which has evolved to the present day.

NSU was acquired by Volkswagen in 1969, and merged with Auto Union to create the modern day Audi company as it is known today.

Some suggest that the introduction of the modern Volkswagen Golf in 1974, from a traditional U. S. competitor, and the introduction of the 1973 Honda Civic, and the 1976 Honda Accord served as a wake-up call for the " Big Three " ( only Chrysler already produced front-wheel-drive vehicles in their operations outside North America ).

A modern, front-wheel drive hatchback, it was one of the first such cars in that class, along with the Volkswagen Passat, and became the 1976 European Car of the Year.

Front-wheel drive versions of modern Audis, from the A4 upwards, along with their related marques from the Volkswagen Group ( which share the same automobile layout ) also use a similar layout, but with the transaxle also mounted longitudinally.

In 1978, Volkswagen began producing the " Rabbit " version of the Golf in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, a modern FWD subcompact design, and in 1982, American Motors began manufacturing the U. S. Renault Alliance, a version of the Renault 9, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, both models benefiting from European designs, development, and experience.

While there, he collaborated with Thomas on the design of the Volkswagen Concept 1 concept car, a modern re-interpretation of the Volkswagen Beetle.

While at the Volkswagen Design Center in Simi Valley, California, he collaborated with fellow Art Center graduate J Mays on the design of the Volkswagen Concept 1 concept car, a modern re-interpretation of the original Volkswagen Beetle.

Shortly before World War II, then, a modern ambulance carried advanced medical equipment, was staffed by a physician, and was dispatched by radio.

The 34. 8 hectares of land, named " Zvezdani Grad " ( English: Star City or Starry City ), will include the stadium with approximately 50, 000 seats, fitness center, ambulance, shopping and Spa center, office towers, a five-star hotel, modern apartment blocks and underground parking.

During this time, he initiated the modern method of army surgery, field hospitals and the system of army ambulance corps.

Early services, like those of MCA, included a mixed bag of ambulance and mail services, cargo, charters, and forest and ice patrols-hardly a hint of the modern carrier that would emerge scarcely twenty years later.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

Some dioceses around the Mediterranean Sea which were Christianised early are rather compact, whereas dioceses in areas of rapid modern growth in Christian commitment — as in some parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and the Far East — are much larger and more populous.

The home of the modern game is still Scotland with the World Bowls centre in Edinburgh at Caledonia House, 1 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ.

The Church of South India was the first modern Episcopal uniting church, consisting as it did, from its foundation in 1947, at the time of Indian independence, of Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Reformed Christians.

A fossil toad ( specimen UCMP 41159 ) from the La Venta fauna of the late Miocene of Colombia is indistinguishable from modern cane toads from northern South America.

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

Examples of modern gold collector / investor coins include the American Gold Eagle minted by the United States, the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf minted by Canada, and the Krugerrand, minted by South Africa.

* South Indian culture, modern Dravidian culture

The two different historical Estonian languages ( sometimes considered dialects ), the North and South Estonian languages, are based on the ancestors of modern Estonians ' migration into the territory of Estonia in at least two different waves, both groups speaking considerably different Finnic vernaculars.

In the third season of what is now considered the modern era of football, Fulham finished top of the Second Division, with a win-loss-draw record of 24 – 9 – 9 ( identical to that which won them the Third Division South seventeen years previously ).

Georgia relationships with Russia are at it lowest point in modern history due to Georgian-Russian espionage controversy and due to the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgia broke off diplomatic relations with Russia and has left the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Mick Mercer's 2002 release 21st Century Goth explores the modern state of the goth scene around the world, including South America, Japan, and mainland Asia.

The ascription of Indus Valley Civilization iconography and epigraphy to historically known cultures is extremely problematic, in part due to the rather tenuous archaeological evidence of such claims, as well as the projection of modern South Asian political concerns onto the archaeological record of the area.

He was an inspirational figure for modern Islamist groups in South Asia and elsewhere.

Today the islands are split more or less equally between the modern unitary authorities of Argyll and Bute and North Ayrshire with only Ailsa Craig and Lady Isle in South Ayrshire falling outwith these two council areas.

* 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.

It is still part of the modern day Republic of South Africa, now known as the Free State.

The boundaries between the South Slavic languages had yet to be " conceptualized in modern terms ", and codifiers of Serbian even found it necessary to argue that Bulgarian was not a Serbian dialect as late as 1822.

In the 19th century, the Angoni or Ngoni people and their chief Zwangendaba arrived from the Natal region of modern day South Africa.

* 1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca ( modern day Sucre ) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.

Marsupials spread westward into modern North America ( still attached to Eurasia ) and then to South America, which was connected to North America until around 65 mya.

The " modern " opening of the tomb was by James Farrer, an antiquarian and the Member of Parliament for South Durham, in July 1861.

A modern example of oligarchy could be seen in South Africa during the twentieth century.