Story
When Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany he wanted to build a low priced compact car which can be purchased by every citizen of his country and which can travel on his country's newly builded roads so he gave Ferdinand Porsche this task to produce the people's car. He produced several prototype models of the vintage beetle. The original beetle rolled of the production line in 1935 and soon became one of the most selling , affordable and low maintenance compact car on the road.
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| 1935 VW beetle |
Although it's designed was ready in 1930's but due to world war II they had to wait till 1940's to began production of civilian beetle's. The company internally designated the car as Volkswagen Type 1 but in the market it was known as Volkswagen which means people's car. In Germany it was known by the name "Kafer" which means beetle. In France it took the name "Coccinelle" meaning lady Bug. Soon its sales increased and the company began to export these love bugs everywhere in the world. There maybe a few country's where you cant find a beetle but anywhere you go in this world you will definitely going to find VW Beetle there. During it's run it showed that it was a car of the hippie with its rebellious shape giving two fingers to the establishment. No doubt classic beetle car was a masterpiece of economics, innovation and simplicity.Design
Classic beetle car has a curved exterior which not only gives a ground breaking look but it is aerodynamic too which we all love about this car. An engine powering the rear wheel's and a small curved structure gives the beetle an excellent road grip and smooth handling. It came in two body styles convertible and hard top. If we talk about its interior this car has quite simple but eye catching interior with the pre-installed tape and speakers.
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VW beetle back view
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| Lady bug interior |
Does this car had Air-conditioning?
Well the answer is No it didn't had air conditioning back then but instead they gave this lady bug side air vent glass at the front on both sides as you can see in the picture
Engine
It was powered by a rear mounted air cooled flat four engine due to its box shape and the piston's moving in horizontal direction from each other on the same crank shaft this engine is also known as a "Boxer Engine". This innovative air cooled engine was easy to maintain and fix which most people love about this car. The original beetle had a 25hp engine which was designed to hit a top speed of "100km/hrs". but later they boosted the engine's performance to 36hp then afterwards it was charged to 40hp. Classic vws came in engine's of 1200cc,1300cc,1500cc,1302 and 1303cc. In 1970 classic vw super beetle was introduced in which beetle's engine was upgraded to 1600cc which was capable of producing 57hp@4400 rpm it also came with a 4 speed manual transmission. In 1978 classic vw beetle had 1835cc engine which had a raging 95hp
Herbie
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| Herbie beetle |
You can imagine it's popularity through this that this lovebug is even used in a Hollywood movie as the main character as Herbie a Beetle who had a mind of its own and it loved to race but it caught itself in different hilarious pranks.
Can a beetle be customized?
Yes a beetle can be customized in a number of ways infact due to it's simplicity car enthusiast all over the world had modded bettle in different ways eg hotrods, slug bugs, monster beetle, vw bug camper and even drag bettles.
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| Modded VW Beetle |
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| HOTROD VW Beetle |
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| Stylish art paint work beetle |
Rarest VW Beetle
There was a rare version of vintage beetle which was known as "Zwitter". It's production started from October 1952 to March 1953. What makes this beetle unique is that it had a distinctive split rear window. It is also know as split screen model
Generations of love bug
VW beetle has 2 generations so far currently it's 2nd generation is in the market.
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| Type 1 VW |
- TYPE 1 (1950-1979)
- Gen 1 (1997-2010)
- Gen 2 (2011-2019)
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| 1st Gen beetle |
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