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- Volkswagen_Beetle abstract "The Volkswagen Beetle, officially called the Volkswagen Type 1 (or informally the Volkswagen Bug), is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003. The need for this kind of car, and its functional objectives, were formulated by Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, wishing for a cheap, simple car to be mass-produced for the new road network of his country. He contracted Porsche in 1934 to design and build it to his exacting standards. Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalise the design. This is one of the first rear-engined cars. With over 21 million manufactured (21,529,464) in an air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform, worldwide.Although designed in the 1930s, the Beetle was only produced in significant numbers from 1945 on (mass production had been put on hold during the Second World War) when the model was internally designated the Volkswagen Type 1, and marketed simply as the "Volkswagen". Later models were designated VW 1200, 1300, 1500, 1302 or 1303, the former three indicating engine displacement and the latter two being derived from the type number and not indicative of engine capacity. The model became widely known in its home country as the Käfer (German for "beetle") and was later marketed as such in Germany, and as the Volkswagen Beetle in other countries.Both Hitler and Porsche were influenced by the Tatras. Hitler was a keen automotive enthusiast, and had ridden in Tatras during political tours of Czechoslovakia. He had also dined numerous times with Ledwinka. After one of these dinners Hitler remarked to Porsche, "This is the car for my roads". From 1933 onwards, Ledwinka and Porsche met regularly to discuss their designs, and Porsche admitted "Well, sometimes I looked over his shoulder and sometimes he looked over mine" while designing the Volkswagen. There is no doubt that the Beetle bore a striking resemblance to the Tatras, particularly the Tatra V570. The Tatra T97 of 1936 had a rear-located, rear-wheel drive, air-cooled four-cylinder boxer engine accommodating four passengers and providing luggage storage under the front bonnet and behind the rear seat. Another similarity between this Tatra and the Beetle is the central structural tunnel. Tatra launched a lawsuit, but this was stopped when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. At the same time, Tatra was forced to stop producing the T97. The matter was re-opened after World War II and in 1961 Volkswagen paid Ringhoffer-Tatra 3,000,000 Deutsche Marks in an out of court settlement.The Beetle was designed for sustained high speed on the Autobahn. It ultimately gave rise to variants, including the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia and the Volkswagen Type 2 bus. The Beetle had marked a significant trend led by Volkswagen, Fiat, and Renault whereby the rear-engine, rear-wheel drive layout had increased from 2.6 percent of continental Western Europe's car production in 1946 to 26.6 percent in 1956. The 1948 Citroën 2CV and other European models marked a later trend to front-wheel drive in the European small car market, a trend that would come to dominate that market. In 1974, Volkswagen's own front-wheel drive Golf model succeeded the Beetle. In 1994, Volkswagen unveiled the Concept One, a "retro"-themed concept car with a resemblance to the original Beetle, and in 1998 introduced the "New Beetle", built on the Golf platform with styling recalling the original Type 1.In a 1999 international poll for the world's most influential car of the 20th century, the Type 1 came fourth, after the Ford Model T, the Mini, and the Citroën DS.".
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- Volkswagen_Beetle assembly Uitenhage.
- Volkswagen_Beetle assembly Valencia,_Carabobo.
- Volkswagen_Beetle assembly Wolfsburg.
- Volkswagen_Beetle bodyStyle Convertible.
- Volkswagen_Beetle bodyStyle Sedan_(automobile).
- Volkswagen_Beetle class Economy_car.
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- Volkswagen_Beetle engine Volkswagen_Beetle__1.
- Volkswagen_Beetle layout Rear-engine,_rear-wheel-drive_layout.
- Volkswagen_Beetle manufacturer Volkswagen.
- Volkswagen_Beetle productionEndYear "2003".
- Volkswagen_Beetle productionStartYear "1938".
- Volkswagen_Beetle successor Volkswagen_Golf.
- Volkswagen_Beetle successor Volkswagen_Group_A_platform.
- Volkswagen_Beetle successor Volkswagen_Jetta.
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- Volkswagen_Beetle thumbnail VolkswagenBeetle-001.jpg?width=300.
- Volkswagen_Beetle transmission "4-speed manual transaxle, 4-spd semi-automatic, Saxomat (from 1961), 3-spd semi-automatic, Autostick (1967–76)".
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- Volkswagen_Beetle aka ""Beetle", "Super Beetle", Käfer "Bug", "Superbug" and other nicknames".
- Volkswagen_Beetle assembly "Wolfsburg, Hanover, Emden, Ingolstadt, Osnabrück, Germany, Melbourne, Australia, Brussels, Belgium, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Jakarta, Indonesia, Dublin, Ireland, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, Auckland, New Zealand, Lagos, Nigeria, Manila, Philippines, Uitenhage, South Africa, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, Valencia, Venezuela".
- Volkswagen_Beetle bodyStyle "2".
- Volkswagen_Beetle caption "Early 1966 Volkswagen Beetle".
- Volkswagen_Beetle class Economy_car.
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- Volkswagen_Beetle date "April 2013".
- Volkswagen_Beetle engine "1.1".
- Volkswagen_Beetle engine "1493".
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- Volkswagen_Beetle layout Rear-engine,_rear-wheel-drive_layout.
- Volkswagen_Beetle manufacturer Volkswagen.
- Volkswagen_Beetle name "1967".
- Volkswagen_Beetle name "Volkswagen Type 1".
- Volkswagen_Beetle platform "113".
- Volkswagen_Beetle production "1938".
- Volkswagen_Beetle reason "what, exactly, is a "standard Beetle"?".
- Volkswagen_Beetle successor Volkswagen_Group_A_platform.
- Volkswagen_Beetle transmission "4".
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