bodo janko a former head of the v.w. plant in hanover says that was due to its peculiar construction. of the one i provided the engine was in the back because there was in the front a water around 4 meters to the back and 4 majors to the front and there were a number of problems in between all that had to be built into this vehicle over a long distance stuff that's technological nonsense and taking. v.w. has long since gotten rid of this nonsense the transporter has been constructed with the front mosher since 1900. as of its 4th generation the boss has little in common with its original concept neither optically nor technologically. have been the one thing we have gotten our customers used to rear engine for years they got an easy when we switched from the beetle to the god with the financial front so it was like shifting from one extreme to another. without a technical relaunch the v.w. bus might never have survived and without it the workers at the v.w. plant in hanover would be out of a job today it's the world's mos