Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is a German manufacturer of commercial vehicles headquartered in Hannover and a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group. Originally part of Volkswagen Passenger Cars, since 1995 it has operated as a separate marque and company. Volkswagen's first joint venture into trucks outside of their own LT range was with MAN Nutzfahrzeuge from 1977–1993. Truck production started in 1979 and ended in 1993 with 72,000 units produced. It was available with four engines and four wheelbases over its lifetime; there was also a 4X4 version called 8.150 FAE. FAE means... "forward control" cab, all-wheel drive, single tyres so the F nomenclature means "forward control" cab. MAN AG supplied engines which were available in inline-four and inline-six cylinder engine configurations, with DIN rated motive power outputs of: MAN AG replaced the G series as it was known internally with the L2000 and M2000 ranges.
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