[NAC] what VW is this emblem for?

[Per Lindgren]

BenediktRochow at oaktech.com wrote:

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>I got this VW emblem from my brother for Christmas: about 10 cm diameter,
>pale metallic blue (bumpy finish - like the pock-marked blue metal finish
>electrical machinery used to be packaged in), plastic, no backing for the
>holes in the VW letters (i.e. grille emblem?).
>Part number on the bag (which says "Audi/VW/Skoda/Seat" and thus is fairly
>new):
>3A0 853 600 /EPG
>
This is the grille badge for virtually any
Polo/Golf/Jetta/Passat/Eurovan from mid 80's to late 90's.

>
>Does the leading 3 mean Typ 3? Temblem does remind me of the Typ 3 Karmann
>Coupe, though plastic seems odd for back then.
>
3 does indeed mean type 3 (of which I'm an owner of a 73 Squareback),
but it also means Passat. You see, the Passat is also a type 3! Just as
the Audi 100 is a type 4, of which the original type 4 was the VW
411/412 series.

PerL
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