Talk:Volkswagen K70

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I would not describe the Ro80 rotary engine as "more complicated" than a piston engine, quite the reverse, infact. "More revolutionary" (no pun intended) would be a better description.

Wankel complicated?
I second that opinion too. A wankel engine is always simpler. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.77.223 (talk) 22:33, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
 * Conceptually simpler, yes.  In terms of production technologies and materials technologies in an inherently conservative (if only because of the huge amount of capital investment needed to set up a production line) industry, not at all simple, however.  If only they'd figured a way to make those rotor seals hold together BEFORE they went to market, the Ro80 might have been as much of a trendsetter in terms of it's motor as it managed to be in terms of the car's wedge-profile overall architecture. Charles01 08:18, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, but "unconventional" or something like that would be more correct than "complicated". --bonzi (talk) 12:45, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think complicated is good word for motor that had bad rotor seals.... unconventional is little bit different thing.. --Typ932 T&middot;C 12:58, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

eagle
I know I shouldn't really do this, but I just had to share, in the hi-res picture of the yellow K70, look in the reflection of the front passenger window and you can see what look lie the reflection of a bird of prey or some such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.188.214.247 (talk) 11:33, 10 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thus the so-called ZeitHaus at the Autostadt.  I too have taken lots of pictures in that building.   The windows are always freshly polished to within an inch (2,54 centimeter?) of their lives and the sun is always in the wrong place and the reflections most often distracting.   Unless, of course, you paid your entrance fee not to look at cars but to check out the local bird life.   Anyhow,  somehow there are always cars in there that just cry out to be photographed, regardless of where the authorities put the sun at the time.   As for the bird, there's quite a lot of flat drained land round there and quite a lot of ditches and, indeed, carefully nurtured ponds and lakelets.   Might it be a heron?   Or do I get points only if I think it's an eagle?   Happy day Charles01 (talk) 10:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Poor perfomance, fuel consumption and other issues
The poor perfomance and fuel consumption of the K70 can be traced back to two main reasons - the engines which were basically blown up variants of the ones used in the former NSU models like the 1200 and 110C (as notable by the valve covers) and the abysmal drag coefficient of cW=0.51 which was bad even for this time (for comparison: the Bug had a cW of 0.48, the Alfa Romeo Giulia of 0.36 despite being an earlier design).

The overall assembly quality of the K70 was also below average, especially when compared to the already established models like the Bug or the 411/412. The K70 suffered from many kinds of problems due to the rather lax way they were assembled, and today owners of this car reported that they had even found painted-over beer caps in the bodywork during restoration of the vehicles.

VW itself didn't do much to sell the K70; advertisment was quite sparse and the cars themselves were rather dumped at the dealerships after the motto "sell or die". At the introduction of the K70, VW was facing its first major crisis finding itself with an outdated model portfolio still basing on the Bug, still coping with the death of VW boss Nordhoff in April 1968 and somehow trying to find a way into the future.

--2A02:560:42DA:2C00:703B:12BE:D2A5:C7E5 (talk) 22:56, 6 August 2019 (UTC)