The Real Story Of How The VW Beetle Came To Exist - Driving America
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I'm going to say that was about 45% accurate
This is not the real story.
Do your homework.
Hanomag and Ganz among others, designed either mid or rear-engined cheap cars for the German masses at least a decade before Porsche's VW.
Yes!!!!! 90% of people don't know this!!!👍👍
@@mikekean8344 Thanks Mike!
not really seems abit bogus info. there were many other cars that had that layout lol
Perhaps a re-imagination of Porsche's MB 130H which he designed earlier. Narragansett Bay
It should have been Hans Ledwinka getting the credit, not Ferdinand Porsche. If you're a car enthusiast but don't know who Hans Ledwinka is, do yourself a favour and look him up. It's worth your time.
Bullshit!
@@bluebear6570 Sure, that must be why Volkswagen had to pay Tatra a settlement for the design of the Beetle after the war.
THEY NEED TO MAKE THESE KIND AGAIN
Sorry, they have no interest in making reliable cars lol
Why did they stop making a good thing
@@ronj2110Demand had slowly been shrinking since the late 1960’s after experiencing its greatest sales during that decade
0:38 damn that car mint AF
Where did you get this information?!!!?!!??
This is 80% BS Dr. Porsche didn't start with a blank sheet of paper - he started with the designs of Josef Ganz. In fact you could say that Ganz's designs also are the basis for all those rear engine Porsches.
prove it
See the docu: How Josef Ganz lost the Maikäfer (beetle)!
fake story
How about issuing the truth about the man who invented the prototype of the Volkswagen Beetle. Look up Josef Ganz.
Ever heard of Ing. Joseph Ganz ?
Or Edmund Rumpler? Both names were mentioned at a conference discussing whose designs would be approved. Both were turned down for reasons I don't need to mention.
Sadly, many people have not heard about Joseph Ganz. I hope this will change.
@@lawrencelewis8105 true. Very true.
@@mikekean8344 its bogus story thats why
Funny enough, hitler and porsche were both austrians
I’m not gonna lie: I really want that my first car was a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle
I have a 1940 beetle
@@loriduran9166
I have now a 1974 model year Beetle.
@@thebluetardis nice 👌
great car!!
VW beetle are my fav car they are the best I subscribed to you because you show true care to these cars
Schwimmwagen? Kubelwagen? Ivan Hirst?... 2 minutes is way to short to even begin to tell about Volkswagen.
Fernand
He engineer how to make a cheap Tatra
Two words missing from this: "Standard Superior" built by Josef Ganz in 1933.
nothing like the beetle
Ya herbies special😊
Why did they stop making a good thing
Porsche was Czech
Long before Hitler came to power, Ferdinand Porsche start his work on a cheap, but modern car for the masses, so Hitler did not conceive the Volkswagen, as stated in the video. Some believe that Porsche simply copied some ideas from Tatra, but tht is equally wrong. The early 1930s saw numerous rear engined cars, like the Mercedes 130 H and 170H, the Tatra. Rear-engined cars are cheaper to produce and so are air-cooled engines.
Hitler came up with the idea of a cheap people's car to get everyone on board with building the autobahns. The VW design copied so much of Ledwinka's ideas that Tatra sued VW and won many years later. Patent infringement- tubular chassis, rear engine, air cooling, torsion bars all came from Tatra. Yes, lots of companies came up with the rear engine idea, but Porsche's design was the one approved for production. And do recall that the Mercedes 130H and 170H were water cooled. The VW was not a "revolutionary" design that came out of nowhere but was derived from other people's ideas.
Me, I love the Citroen Traction Avant- a design that came out in 1934 with an all-steel body, styling based on the 1933 Ford, front wheel drive, torsion bar suspension and rack and pinion steering. All came before it but the Traction is the first car to have all of that in one package that people could afford.
It's Porsche with an 'e' not an 'a'.
It is not pronounced PORSH. It is correctly pronounced POR-shuh. Sorry if facts upset you.
This is 100% real no bs
Austrohungygermamy. Always my people victims. Hail victory of Prussian golocaust
The Real Story Of How The VW Beetle Came To Exist: TATRA V570.
End of the story.
I had my first automobile a 1969 vw bettle. With an automatic stick shift three speed shifting no use of left pedal that was not there also air conditioner when turned on shook the motor did not cool the car well caused a lot of stalling I should only have purchased a four on the flour no air 500 cheaper I lived and learned was recalled spent one whole day at dealers shop the simplier the better the automobile should Beas I do my dating tho girls no real women want or as on tv dates fancy wine dining alcohol drugs legal but just look at all the troubles it causes car crashes loco volks to fall down or more Driving drunk is never one bit fun or four daze in bed never gain if I could help it I have seen some volks drink forget them stay away when sober they are fine my dad was a very fine well advanced medical ems donot ask how many drunks he aided in auto wrecks one of the worst causes some required cpr resuscitation was he sick from reving them the smell on mouths came home once threw up all over the first floor bathroom I am called sgt at arms Long Island vw auto club whistle blower love it at our show clubs all only vws was a 100x clean 1954 vw bettle semaphore turn signals I wish they still had so easy to see since then 1950 some car makers put them where hard to see I have had nine other vws all of which besides other auto makers have thier good or bad some were five minutes five$$ to change front headlight bulb today 500bulb plus twenty minutes labor why do they make simple complicated more car maker should do as was the vw beetle bug was done one body style improve on it keep it simple
Ever heard of punctuation? I read this in my mind and I'm so show out of breath because you made the worlds longest sentence
Good god. Chat wall!
Interesting points, but please edit this to not make the words bleed together!
1:54
Well... Unfortunately, but anyway
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Come on guys, do some research... Porsche did not design the Beattle, but stole the design and lots of the technical design from Tatra.