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Volkswagen in America

…hr. After WWII British occupation forces in Germany ordered 20,000 Type I VW beetles for light transport use from the bombed-out factory in Wolfsburg. In January 1949, the first VW Beetles arrived in America. Today, Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota (our other WWII enemy) as the largest automotive empire in the world. Source: The first Volkswagen Beetle in America looked like this | Autoweek https://youtu.be/Hpv6-SBwj1U…

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…rting two adults and three children at 100 km/hr. When it became apparent that private industry could not turn out a truly inexpensive car, Hitler chose to sponsor an all-new, state-owned factory using Ferdinand Porsche’s design to manufacture a Volkswagen (People’s Car) that would be available to German citizens for 990 Reichsmarks through a savings plan. The new VW factory in Wolfsburg turned out only a few civilian models before the war broke o…