The VW Beetle is a 1938 to 2003 from the current car model, Volkswagen AG, produced and was until June 2002 with over 21.5 million copies, this best-selling car in the world until he had title to his successor, the VW Golf, passed.
The origins of the VW Beetle was going to State efforts of Nazi Germany to create an affordable for the public as "Car", at that time called KDF car back. Much of the development of Ferdinand Porsche, who is commonly known as the creator of the Beetle. The idea of a "Car" is in its basic features, but older than his development of the Nazi period.
The KDF-Wagen was produced before the war, not in series, because the (established in May 1938 Volkswagen plant at Fallersleben Wolfsburg's now a district) was not yet finished. During World War II military vehicles were produced there, and other armaments, so that mass production could begin then, Volkswagen called the car until the summer of 1945. By the end of 1945 1785 cars were produced and delivered to the occupying powers and to the German Post. By 1946, the VW could be bought with ration card for the price of 5,000 Reichsmark privately also.
By exporting to the USA and many other countries and because of the so-called German economic miracle, which stood for the Volkswagen symbolically reached the Beetle production at Wolfsburg and numerous manufacturing and assembly plants around the world unimagined heights. In the United States - to Germany's main VW market - gained the beetle as a cheap, fuel efficient vehicles by local terms, but above all as an embodiment of a "counterculture" to the Straßenkreuzern in the 1960s won great popularity. The early 1970s, sales dropped, because the beetle had increasingly are being challenged by more modern small cars. 1974 production of his successor, VW Golf in Wolfsburg began production in Germany (Emden) finished 1978th After that it was produced only in Mexico and Brazil. Until 1985, the VW Beetle was offered in Germany.
21,529,464 VW Beetles were produced, of which nearly 15.8 million stem pieces (including some 330,000 convertible) of the German production .
The beetle-plant was given the designation, type 1, than in 1950 as the VW Transporter Type 2 came out.
The body shape of the products produced in Mexico since 1998, VW New Beetle is modeled on that of the beetle.
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