Admittedly this isn't so much a tech article as it is a footnote. In 1968 VW introduced the Autostick transmission in both the Beetle and Karmann Ghia range. Along with this, 1968 Autostick models also got an IRS transmission while the manual transmission-equipped models kept the Swing-Axle for one more year. Both models got the IRS for 1969-on.