A farkon shekarun 50s, ƙarancin farashin diesel da aka yi a Turai da ƙarancin mai, sakamakon yaƙin Koriya, ya sa Volkswagen ya yi caca akan injin diesel. Tare da Porsche, sun sanya wa aikin suna da nau'in 508. Sakamakon haka: injin na musamman, wanda, duk da amo, yana da amfani mai gamsarwa. Ya ba da ƙarfin dawakai 25 (Beetle na al'ada ya ba da 36 hp) kuma ya kai matsakaicin juyi 3,300 a minti daya. An yi nasarar 0-100 km/h a cikin daƙiƙa 60 mai raɗaɗi…
Daga baya, shugaban Volkswagen mai ci Heinz Nordhoff ya yanke shawarar cewa motar ba za ta sayar da ita a Amurka ba saboda hayaniya ce, a hankali kuma tana da gurɓatacce. Daga karshe aka yi watsi da aikin.
A cikin 1981, Porsche, a bikin cika shekaru 50 da haihuwa, ya ba Robert Binder Deutschmarks 50,000 don sake gina injin diesel na Volkswagen na farko. Manufar ita ce a saka shi a cikin Beetle a shekara ta 1951, tiyatar da za ta yi nasara ko da yake yana da wuya a yi.
A yau, duk da cewa yana aiki, "Volkswagen Käfer Diesel" a dabi'ance ba ya wuce gwajin gurbataccen iska. Duk da haka, waɗanda ba su da hankali za su iya samun abin hawa akan nuni a gidan kayan tarihi na Porsche.
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