Volkswagen Beetle History : From Hitler to hippy

The design of this car is the most recognizable and beloved by people around the world. As you may have guessed, this is the Volkswagen Beetle. And everyone at least once, sitting in this car, can confirm that the beetle has a unique aroma of automotive oil, plastic ...

1. Meet a Beetle!

2. Car for the people. As is known, Volkswagen translates as "the car for the people." Although initially, the car had the name "KdF-Wagen", as the prefix KdF - an abbreviation for "Kraft durch Freude", which means "The Power of Joy" - officially authorized organization for the rest of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler had ordered a Porsche car in late 1930 in order to stimulate the German economy, as well as to cause a new wave of advances in engineering, which would help the Nazis to create a war machine. Only after the Second World War, this machine has become known as the "Beetle" in the world. In the photo: Hitler admiringly looks at a new model of Volkswagen, Ferdinand Porsche and the designer shows that the car engine is behind.

3. Laying corner stone. Hitler and the Nazi ranks higher celebrate laying the foundation of a factory near Fallersleben Volkswagen Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1938.

4. A gift to Hitler's birthday. Ferdinand Porsche (left, in dark suit) is a new design gig VW Adolf Hitler to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the birth of Hitler, Berlin, Germany, 1939.

5. Postwar Beetle. New Volkswagen drives past the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

6. Body for the "Beetle". Production of "Zhukov", 1960.

7. "Bugs" out of production. VWs go out clearly a high-tech assembly line.

8. Ideal forms. "Beetles" ready for export at a factory in Wolfsburg.

9. Familiar spaces. Cab "Beetle" with its clean and elegant metallic touches, large and small wheel, as well as the emblem of elegance to lock in Wolfsburg, are hallmarks for the millions of owners of Volkswagen.

10. Convertible. Elegance throughout, with the same inherent "Zhuk" charm.

11. Works of art.

12. Favorite car of hippies. By the end of the 1960 Beetle (as well as from the Volkswagen minivan) became the choice of number 1 among the subcultures. In the photo: "Beetle" is sent to the festival at Woodstock, 1969.

13. Picnic near the "Beetle". Friends sat near the "Beetle" on the road to Woodstock.

14. Participants of the festival at Woodstock rest on his car.

15. Forged "Beetle". Beetle looks great next to the house in Daytona Beach, Florida.

16. Beetle wins Nepal. The owner of "Beetle" from Nepal Satendra Siddhi Barayasha poses for a photo with their favorite car in Kathmandu. Barayasha, a wholesale grocer, first fell in love with the classic design of this car when I saw a tourist traveling on an unusual car in 1970. Nepal is a destination for thousands of travelers and hippies who came to Kathmandu from Istanbul through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many of them came specifically to "beetles." Upon their arrival, most selling their vehicles wealthy residents to fund further travels, purchase of drugs, the acquisition of antiquities, or the trip home.

17. "Beetles" in Bangladesh. Family shows the victory sign before the start of the Volkswagen Rally in the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh.

18. Brazilian Beetle. Beetle, painted in national colors of Brazil, riding along the beach of Copacabana, after Brazil won the World Cup in 2002.

19. Chair for the people. The model shows a chair made from the hood "Beetle".

20. Hungry Herbie. Herbie, the Volkswagen humanoid, the protagonist of several Disney movies, scary young woman at an auto show in Berlin.

21. Beetle hatred. Beetle with a scratch on him racist slogans during a march for Civil Rights in Alabama, shows that not all owners of "Zhukov" were peace-loving people in the 1960's.

22. The leader of the strikes. Members of the union held a strike Belgium in Brussels, protesting against unemployment, led by "Zhuk", on the roof of which was a speaker.

23. Wet Beetle. Beetle moves a mountain stream on the way from Cusco to Ayacucho in Peru.

24. National Beetle Brazil. Beetle down the hill along the building of the National Congress of Brazil (the architect Oscar Niemeyer, 1961), Brazil.

25. Virtual tour of Queen Beatrix on the "Beetle". Queen Beatrix of Holland during the virtual trip to Mexico in the "Beetle" in the Dutch Architecture Institute in Rotterdam.

26. Adios! Auf Wiedersehen! Musicians accompany the very last Beetle after he stepped off the production line at the VW factory in Puebla, July 30, 2003. Volkswagen ceased production of "Zhukov" after selling more than 21 million of these cars since their launch into production in 1938.

We'll see soon New Volkswagen Beetle Convertible - First illustration

Having presented the new generation VW Beetle, later this year will see and open version.
Market it will be next year, as a model of 2013. Most likely, the premiere open Beetle will be in Frankfurt in the autumn.

Now is still the current version of the Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet hit the market in 2003, only five years after the onset of the cabin. But then convertible became quite popular and obviously that the people of Wolfsburg this time to take stronger action to put the new convertible only about a year later by car.

The car will have a soft folding top, which will be removed and replaced automatically and quite quickly. Where will be folded behind the rear seats and will not take up much space. The standard will enter and heated rear window. Overall open Beetle will repeat the technical design and interior.

With the convertible will be offered only two engines, both gasoline will be. The first will be a five-cylinder and 170 hp power, the second is four, but turbine and power 201 hp The engines will be combined with manual and automatic transmissions, both with 6 degrees.

Published a first edition leftlanenews.com computer images of the open Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet, which show you.

The New Beetle was revealed simultaneously in New York, Berlin and Shanghai Live Photos

Officially launched the new Beetle from Volkswagen in Shanghai while the Germans have already the online configurator at the official German site. The information in the car made ​​famous in the morning and the new Beetle design follows the same classic design of previous generations, featuring LED lights, which are quite reminiscent of the Porsche 911. Everything else they do to us indicates that this is a classic VW.

Official: New Volkswagen Beetle 2012 3 review video

Once in less than an hour the first leaked photos of the new Beetle, Volkswagen has provided all the details of the Beetle in 2012. The new Beetle design follows the same classic design of previous generations, featuring LED lights, which are quite reminiscent of the Porsche 911. Everything else they do to us indicates that this is a classic VW.

new beetle has grown in length by 15.2 centimeters wide by 8.4 inches, while height has been lowered by 1.2 cm (4.278 mm length, 1.808 mm width, 1.486 mm height, 2.537 mm wheelbase. O luggage space is at 310 liters . The owners can buy rims with 19 "system Keyless entry, panoramic roof, and Bi-Xenon LED lights. Inside the new Beetle will be available in three trim levels Beetle, Design and Sport. offers better quality materials and stand by the three institutions in the middle of the dashboard.

2012 VW Beetle Photos - New edition of the retro gets sporty look

The historical model was one of the first world car at all. No wonder that in the VW Beetle-grandchildren parallel Shanghai, New York and Berlin presents. The successor of the New Beetle is only Beetle would eventually "New New Beetle" also sound strange. The new edition will be based in future optically close to the historic original.

The new Beetle is longer with 4.28 meters by 15 centimeters than its predecessor. The level declined slightly to 1.49 meters while the width increased to 1.81 meters. The gauges and the wheelbase has been increased. Beetle front is the result of parting from the dome roof has become a bit flat, the interior height drops slightly to 1.04 meters. Back to itself, however, revealed by the longer roof section of a much better sense of space. Simultaneously, the trunk grows from 209 to 310 liters, the seatbacks can be folded down.

The 200-horsepower Beetle runs a maximum of 225 km / h, while the 105 PS TSI is only 5.5 liters of fuel used. More economical, the two TDI with 105 PS and 140. Here, the small machine, including BlueMotion technology measures only 4.3 liters of diesel consumed per 100 kilometers. In Europe, from October to November 2011 Beetle comes on the market, prices VW has not yet announced. They began to date at around 17,500 €.