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Official type designations
Official type designations
Passenger cars licensed for road use in Germany need a general type approval for the issue of a vehicle title document.
The type approval is issued by the Federal Ministry for Transport in Flensburg following type inspection. This procedure was permitted until 31.12.1997 and, in exceptional cases, even after that.
Other member states of the European Union (EU) have different procedures for issuing a document similar to the German title document. Until 31.12.1997, each member state was entitled to issue its own national type approvals according to its own procedures.
Since 1.1.1998, all passenger cars licensed within the European Union must have a type approval corresponding to EU guidelines. Vehicles licensed for road use with single-vehicle approval according to § 21 StVZO in Germany are excepted.
This means the same guidelines apply to all vehicle manufacturers. This makes it easier to trade across national borders within the EU.
Official type approval, sales or trade designation
   
In the following table, all VW vehicles which already have EU type approval are listed in the column "EU type".
All VW vehicles which were granted type approval according to the procedure valid up to 31.12.97 are listed in the column "General type approval (GTA)"
If entries appear in both columns "General type approval (GTA)" and "EU type", there exist vehicles of this model which are approved according to both the StVZO and the EU guidelines. In this case, one must first establish what sort of vehicle one has. There are two possibilities:
1. possibility
The last page of the vehicle title includes the field „Certified holder of a general type approval/EEC type approval“. Either the general type approval number of the EU type approval number is entered here, assuming it is the original vehicle title document. This is the case only if the vehicle was not deregistered in the past for longer than 12 months.
2. possibility
Check whether the general type approval number or the EU type approval number is entered on the vehicle identification plate.
Official type designation for vehicles withSales or trade designation
GTA typeEU type 
-6ELupo 3L, Lupo FSI
-6ESLupo GTI
-6XLupo 1999 >
6N6NPolo 1995 > (A03)
-6KVPolo Classic 1996 > (A13); Polo Variant 1998 > (A23)
-9NPolo 2002 >; Polo Fun 2004 >; Cross Polo 2006 > (A04)
1HX01HGolf 1992 > (A3)
1HX01HGolf Variant (A3)
1HX01HVento (A3)
1HX11HGolf Syncro (A3)
1HX11HGolf Syncro Variant (A3)
1EX01EGolf Cabriolet (A3)
-1JGolf 1998 >, Golf 4Motion (A4)
-1JGolf Variant 1999 >
-1JBora 1999 >, Bora 4Motion
-1JBora Variant 1999 >
-1KGolf 2004 >
-1KPGolf Plus 2005 >; Cross Golf 2007 >
-9CNew Beetle 1999 >
-1YNew Beetle Cabriolet 2003 >
-9CRNew Beetle RSi 2001 >
35I-Passat 1994 >
35I-Passat Variant 1994 >
-3BPassat/Passat Variant 1997 >
-3BPassat/ Passat Variant 4Motion 1997 >
-3BGPassat/Passat Variant 2001 >
-3BGPassat/ Passat Variant 4Motion 2001 >
-3BSPassat/Passat Variant W8 4Motion 2002 >
-3BLPassat Protect 2002 >
7M7MSharan, Sharan Syncro 1996 >
7L7LTouareg 2003 >

   

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