Hitler met with Porsche about designing his people's car in the early '30s, so the Beetle's origins extend to before WWII began. Volkswagen began selling the car in 1938 as the KdF (Kraft durch ...

The Volkswagen Beetle is more than just a car; it’s an icon of automotive history, culture, and innovation. Designed in the 1930s by Ferdinand Porsche at the request of Adolf Hitler, the original goal ...

The Volkswagen Beetle is represented on all seven continents, ... Hitler wanted an air-cooled car that could carry a family ...

The Volkswagen Beetle, which was not designed by Hitler, represented bare-bones, no-frills basic transportation when the first two examples of the car were introduced to the U.S. in January of ...

Henry Menager likes his classic cars fast, bright and bug-shaped. Aside from his own prized 1967 Camaro, the owner of the ...

The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...

Sales were increasing slowly in the United States, but Volkswagen was battling against post-war anti-German sentiment for the car, which had been conceived under Adolf Hitler’s direction in 1934.

The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...

The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...