Volkswagen K70

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The Volkswagen K70 is a four-door sedan developed by NSU and marketed from 1970–1975 by Volkswagen after its 1969 acquisition of NSU — as the first water-cooled, front-engine, front drive vehicle from a company, to that point, synonymous with air-cooled, rear-engined, rear drive vehicles. Designed by NSU's chief engineer Ewald Praxl and styled by Claus Luthe as a four-door sedan (and five-door wagon) to complement the NSU Ro80 — and competing with VW's own 411/412 and Audi's 100 — the K70 was ultimately marketed only as a sedan, with production reaching 211,127 for model years 1970–1975. The K70 retained NSU's naming convention, as introduced with the Ro 80 — with K denoting the German word Kolben (piston) and 70 designating an engine output of 70 PS (51 kW; 69 hp).

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