Description: The concept of a "people's car" was nothing new when Dr. Ferdinand Porsche set out to make the Beetle. The Ford Model T had come and gone by this point, and in truth the Beetle didn&apo...Add Comments16
Aaron CrispOct 30, 2012 Yeah the 911's have really grown on me.
Erich EngelOct 30, 2012 yeah the 356 wasnt the best i personally dont like porsche 911s until the 964 generation, although all of the 911s were good
Nick SchneeOct 29, 2012 I KNEW this is was gonna be in this series. Ha.
Erich EngelOct 29, 2012 The reason he left vw to start Porsche was because vw wanted to make his design a cheap econobox and he felt the design was superior for racing and sports cars so he made the 356 as a Porsche
Tim PuckettOct 29, 2012 @erich Naaa your just a Porsche fanboy but that's fine cuz I hate the bug just as much as you do
Erich EngelOct 29, 2012 And what argument all I said was beetles suck, the 911 was the better car designed by Ferdinand
Erich EngelOct 29, 2012 Haha I no that ! What makes you think I don't ? It says so right in the article! I love Porsches I think I would know who started the company
David ParentiOct 29, 2012 Erich, Ferdinand Porsche designed the Beetle and the Porsche. Your argument holds no value. Shows your ignorance.
David ParentiOct 29, 2012 A kharman Ghia was a VW by the way.
David ParentiOct 29, 2012 Hey Erick! A kharman Ghia and a Porsche were the same thing! It was called "the poor mans Porsche". Kind of like your 80's era 944. Porsche would probably like to forget they made them.
Tim PuckettOct 29, 2012 I'd definitely hot rod the sh** outta this
Tyler TarboxOct 29, 2012 Hope the Mustang is in this series. Should be
David ParentiOct 29, 2012 Shouldn't be surprised, they made millions of bugs and made them for many years. Plus they were air cooled and almost anyone could work on them. Innovative for the time.
Jordan JacksonOct 29, 2012 Yup, I figured this car would be next
Petro MaaloufDec 13, 2012 One of the best and most iconic cars ever built ... Sorry austin but when this was launched the other cheap cars looked uglier .... I love this car and i love Vw's
Austin GoodmanOct 31, 2012 One of the worst looking cars ever made.
Frederick PerezOct 29, 2012 Like to own a decent one but difficult
to find nowadays
Description: Dr. Porsche had long wanted to produce a hugely mass-market everyman's car, but his early attempts hadn't exactly worked out. In 1931, he built the Porsche Type 12 prototype for Zundapp, a c...Add Comments1
Wayne Joseph BoreanOct 29, 2012 Gotta love these cars. We turned a bunch of them into bush buggies for hunting. You needed to find a reduction tranny for a VW van to get the best performance, but it wasn't all that hard. At least it wasn't then. There aren't many Bugs left now. Sigh.
They had a beautiful rebuilt early Bug in the movie Iron Sky.
Description: The Type 60, as this new version of the car was called, borrowed heavily from the design of a contemporary Czech car which had debuted a couple of years earlier, built by Tatra. The Tatra had started ...Add Comments6
Liam LauNov 01, 2012 I just googled for the Tatra and they do look very similar. This paragraph from Wikipedia is an eye opener:
"Ferdinand Porsche later admitted 'to have looked over Ledwinka's shoulders' while designing the Volkswagen.
Tatra sued Porsche for damages, and Porsche was willing to settle. However, Hitler canceled this, saying he 'would settle the matter.' [5] When Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis...
A.J. BradyOct 30, 2012 And the fact that most people don't know the truth about the Porsche's "people car" is sad. So Porsche and Thomas Edison do have something in common.
Erich EngelOct 29, 2012 Aww poor tatra at least they made some awesome cars even tho they got boned by vw and the nazis
Sasa JungicOct 30, 2012 I hate Beetle. I hate the history behind it. And the thing I don't get is hippies drove these horrible things and who designed this misery. The one and only Adolf Hitler
Description: This was maybe not the most ethical of business practices (and from the Nazis, imagine) and Volkswagen would end up paying an out-of-court settlement to Tatra in 1961; albeit, not a very big one. Prod...Add Comments1
Description: Ford turned down the offer to have the company for free, saying it wasn't worth the money. Volkswagen's energies immediately after the war were primarily given over to producing vehicles for...Add Comments4
Sam BigginOct 30, 2012 Look at ford now losing hundreds of millions in europe
Greg LewisOct 29, 2012 Nah, ford has an image to uphold. Kudos ford
David ParentiOct 29, 2012 I wonder how true that is...
Jordan JacksonOct 29, 2012 Damn Ford, if you only knew...
Austin GoodmanOct 31, 2012 Didn't these put out like 30 hp?
Description: Fans of the show "Mad Men" will recall that Volkswagen's Think Small campaign of 1959 was an unexpected hit. It flew in the face of conventional advertising wisdom at the time, but it c...Add Comments0
Description: The only vehicles to have sold more are the VW Golf (the Beetle's replacement), the Ford F-Series and the Toyota Corolla. Most of these cars were built in Germany, but several million were also b...Add Comments0
Description: The Beetle just couldn't compete with these cars, and so VW changed its focus for the American and European markets, while shifting the Beetle to a car primarily for the Latin American market, wh...Add Comments0
Yeah the 911's have really grown on me.
yeah the 356 wasnt the best i personally dont like porsche 911s until the 964 generation, although all of the 911s were good
They're both ugly.
I hope a 4x4 will be next.
I KNEW this is was gonna be in this series. Ha.
The reason he left vw to start Porsche was because vw wanted to make his design a cheap econobox and he felt the design was superior for racing and sports cars so he made the 356 as a Porsche
@erich Naaa your just a Porsche fanboy but that's fine cuz I hate the bug just as much as you do
And what argument all I said was beetles suck, the 911 was the better car designed by Ferdinand
Haha I no that ! What makes you think I don't ? It says so right in the article! I love Porsches I think I would know who started the company
Erich, Ferdinand Porsche designed the Beetle and the Porsche. Your argument holds no value. Shows your ignorance.
A kharman Ghia was a VW by the way.
Hey Erick! A kharman Ghia and a Porsche were the same thing! It was called "the poor mans Porsche". Kind of like your 80's era 944. Porsche would probably like to forget they made them.
I'd definitely hot rod the sh** outta this
Hope the Mustang is in this series. Should be
Shouldn't be surprised, they made millions of bugs and made them for many years. Plus they were air cooled and almost anyone could work on them. Innovative for the time.
Yup, I figured this car would be next