VW Bug

by Ron Roberts

Title

VW Bug

Artist

Ron Roberts

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Photograph - Photograph

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Saw this cool looking altered VW "Beetle" at a locat car show.
"The People's Car.
Dr. Ing. (h.c.) Ferdinand Porsche A reconstruction of the Porsche Type 12 (1932) KdF Propaganda � "A family playing by a river with a KdF-Wagen and radio receiver"
In 1931, Ferdinand Porsche developed the Porsche Type 12, or "Auto f�ermann" (car for everybody) for Z�. Porsche already preferred the flat-four engine, and selected a swing axle rear suspension (invented by Edmund Rumpler), while Z� insisted on a water-cooled five-cylinder radial engine. In 1932, three prototypes were running.[12] All of those cars were lost during World War II, the last in a bombing raid in Stuttgart in 1945.

The Z� prototypes were followed by the Porsche Type 32, designed in 1933 for NSU Motorenwerke AG, another motorcycle company. The Type 32 was similar in design to the Type 12, but had a flat-four engine. NSU's exit from car manufacturing resulted in the Type 32 being abandoned at the prototype stage.[13]

In 1933, Adolf Hitler gave the order to Ferdinand Porsche to develop a Volkswagen (literally, "people's car" in German, pronounced [ˈfɔlksvaːɡən]). The epithet Volks- literally, "people's-" had been previously applied to other Nazi sponsored consumer goods such as the Volksempf�er ("people's radio"). Hitler required a basic vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children at 100 km/h (62 mph). The "People's Car" would be available to citizens of the Third Reich through a savings scheme, or Sparkarte (savings booklet),[14] at 990 Reichsmark, about the price of a small motorcycle (an average income being around 32RM a week).

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July 25th, 2011

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