Yup. I bought a Rabbit Pickup new in 1981. Drove it 300,000 US miles in 22 years. Hands down the best motor vehicle I ever had! When it finally wore out I even tried to get my dealership to import one from South Africa, where they were still being made. No dice....
The first affordable "people's car" was the Ford Model T, and after that the second "people's car" was likely the product of workers in the USSR (GAZ, ZIL or something like the two).
The problem with the engine's design was it wouldn't meet emissions regulations, even after VW went to electronic fuel injection in the 70s. Being air cooled, engine temperature couldn't be regulated enough for expansion and emissions numbers would skyrocket when it burned more than a trace of engine oil. To completely re-engineer the the engine to conform to today's first-World standards, you'd end up with something resembling Subaru's boxer engine anyway. Liquid cooled, overhead cams, 20 lbs of wiring and electronics for engine management... and then all of the other mandates that were required for sale. Emissions and economy standards. Safety legislation. You couldn't build that car today. The entire car was a crumple zone when they cut back on the budget for 68 and used thinner steel for everything. The giant 5 mph bumpers were ugly, the elephant foot taillights were enormous, and emissions were futilly addressed with a catalytic converter that didn't really make much difference except to choke the performance of an already anemic engine. To give you an idea how that car would look if they still tried to build one, look at the size of a Honda Civic from the 90s, and look at one now. It's twice the size.
You missed it by about 30 years. The Ford Model T was the first car for the masses. The VW was a car designed for the masses in Europe. Ford was also producing cars in Britain on a mass scale before the VW as were the French with the Citroen.
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman Somebody told you a fairy tale. Ford was already mass producing Model T cars and was the largest manufacture in the world when he went to Germany in 1925 to set up the German Ford Company. Karl Benz was 81 years old in 1925 ( died in 1929) and Ford may have paid a courtesy visit to him as one of the early pioneers of automobiles, but there was no business involvement. In any event, that does not change the fact that Ford was the first mass produced vehicle designed for the common man decades ahead of VW.
Ford model T saw over 16 million produced in 14 years,1914 to 1928 (correct me if I am wrong!!) it took Volkswagen around or over 3 decades to equal this number....
Thank Heavens the NUS prototype was saved. 3:31 "Non of the savers got his car" The savers eventually got a complete free car OR a partial discount based on verified proof of percentage paid toward the original KDF Wagen from post war VW.
First car for the masses? How bout the MOdel T? "the Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Leaping Lena, or flivver) is an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.[6][7] It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class"
@@fatsocurrywurst3139 both cars were created in the same century. The model T was a master of conquering the terrain that was before mass roads were built. The early beetles had mechanical brakes like the model T. They had similar power and neither were capable of high speeds. The earliest beetles are not the cars you remember. They were also plagued with early design problems. I love beetles and have a 1963 convertible. I trained to work at a repair shop called Autohaus. I have an uncle that restored a Model T and I have experience with those also. For the time and conditions of travel (meaning few roads) the Model T would be far superior.
Here's a major problem with this claim Gantz came up with a tiny, short, mid-engine, water cooled, extremely large wheeled car with a different style of chassis that looks nothing like a Volkswagen Beetle. Every single one of his cars look nothing like a Volkswagen Beetle. What Ferdinand Porsche did is what every single automotive maker has ever done they looked at other designs and went oh wow how can I take that and improve it and that's exactly what happened. Ferdinand came up with a better chassis a better engine and a better design. For anyone to sit there and say that the beetle was invented by Joseph Gantz is ludicrous because nothing against ever did saw fruition in the Beetle
They killed the air cooled because of emissions. Cost of adding emissions equipment and room for installing it made the allurer not good. The water pumper beetle was only to appease the beetle desiring people and was super hard to work on and not efficient. Old air cooled were where its at. Then came the diesel scandal...another story.
Firstly, I've got a 1.6 VW diesel that came with a pack of lies. Early beetle 6.5Litres/100Km? Yeah! Nothing changes! Secondly, I worked, in the 1990s, for a company supplying test gear to auto manufacturers. We had a German sales representative who assured us that as soon as you walked into VW premises, you were in no doubt as to who had founded the company. It wasn't Herr Porsche, it wasn't the KDF....... go on, have a guess!
@Victor Block story goes they gave ganz a lot of money ganz wasn't allowed to talk about it " we give you this $$ and you don't say a word " in which ganz didn't he took it to his grave vw won't and wouldn't say why they gave ganz $$$ but it just makes sense if you look back he sues vw/porsche / Hitler in the 30s for steeling his car design and years later he gets money from them ...my understanding is he got millions or maybe a million vw and ganz had a deal that was to never be spoken of .many say he got millions or maybe a million 🤔 by what I've seen in the past years ...but at the end vw did gave him money 💰 I see that as guilty as can be ....I still give porsche his credit in the vw beetle ...
Most all automakers should learn from Germany’s vw maker keep it nice and simple the same body style bring back semaphore turn signals I see as one of the best ways to signal for turns easy to see get rid of the very bright headlights much brighter than my bright lites on my 1970vw square back mini station wagen we need to do better designs on auto bodies to have much less blind spots nothing in hp motors that could be driven over sixty mph more smaller autos make for less crowded roads safer driving less computers no gps maps bring back map books atlases hagstroms Geografia honesty when more cared new costumers by name never rigged gasoline pumps to over charge you or for what gasoline you never got on the same model autos why change body styles every two or three years unless improvements we donot need abs brake systems very cost time consuming to fix I was told three days 2000$$ I left it alone used old fashion way on brake pedal no wonder things donot sell very costly all of us are not millionaires billionaires have patience for daze while in shops for repairs it was nicer when more simplier tho some of this is our government regulations running our lives for so called cleaner air our health some of this is nicer if we only drove less idiling our autos much too much wastes fuel cost $$$$$$$$donot ask many things should be done for the better but will not happen because of the volks are or when scrap metal prices are high they steal make it bad for us honest ones or they slam on brakes finding the metal easy does it is best I will admit I never was alway the best how I did it some learn some well we all should walk more cycle ride more drive in nicer ways easier planned routes so we drive less get more done in a day I could say more but it is easy to do if we just think plan our dazes weather may hurt at times our health haste makes waste thank you for letting me do my opions experiences what I know from my past we donot always need more$$$$$$$$ just use some proper Sense you may save some money time enjoy life more have more free ime be healthier and what is very annoying is as say easy does it when using five cent return container machines llife is more enjoyable less time working no but how many will not be this way they donot have the patience drs nurses can not live without them some volks are hard to figure out they way they are worrying about others how much money we earn have sex live sorry none outside persons looks yourself comes first or should I donot have all the answers know it all but have seen plenty wrong or right done college education is overrated not for us all very costly years to pay loans if ever done when you need a loan then go see the lone arangerdo these volks really do high pay jobs after graduation some ok but I wish things were not always so complicated some make it that way cause thier own problems enough already said I past comments I love some replies to my things I come first then other who it depends senorita amigo and me why if I was like others watching others all day long as some do to me I’d have more becoming of a nervous wreck I see plenty in my daily living only worry if reallly to worry over crime bothering me stealing from me you want it then go work for it as I do or get lost and mind your own business adios for now
Adolf Hitler stole the idea for the iconic Volkswagen Beetle from Josef Ganz - the Jewish engineer behind Hitler's Volkswagen Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086663/Hitler-copied-idea-iconic-Volkswagen-Beetle-Jewish-engineer-historian-claims.html#ixzz4rSKNoume Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebookand had him written out of history, a historian has sensationally claimed. The Nazi leader has always been given credit for sketching out the early concept for the car in a meeting with car designer Ferdinand Porsche in 1935.
that is ridiculous and stupid, nothing to due with joseph Ganz except the style from the rear from the beatle, because, all, the technique and the global style comes from Tatra and he's engineer Hans Ledwinka...
Well..the whole Country Boehmen and Maeren ( Tscheko - Slovodka since 1918 ) has been a German/Austrian - Provence thousands of Years ( its only small really ) so whatever Ferdinand, Bobesch and Lolek constructed in them Times ( Rear - Engined - Cars all look similar of that Time ) so whats next the Germans stole the Pils - ( Lager ) receipt from Tschecko, Nene Towarisch, hehe...
I guess that's why Ford built a plant in the Weimar Republic to build 2.3 MILLION Model T Fords! Then shifted production to Model AAA's (NOT US Model A's or AA's) with a 2.5L (instead of 3.1 Liter) 4 cylinder engine and FOUR-speed manual un-sychronized transmission. I've seen examples of BOTH at the Henry Ford Museum. Then GM/OPEL flooded the European continent with cars/light trucks/delivery vans. The French and Italian automakers couldn't compete with the engine displacement/HP taxes Hitler ignored. Should we consider Mitsubishi back in 1898 in Japan and THEIR "People's car"??? A two-seat open-top 700cc two-stroke design with a top speed of about 12 MPH that sold for the princely sum of (about) $700 USD compared to the Duryea for $2400?
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lovely to see all the Beetle prototypes!
Yup. I bought a Rabbit Pickup new in 1981. Drove it 300,000 US miles in 22 years. Hands down the best motor vehicle I ever had! When it finally wore out I even tried to get my dealership to import one from South Africa, where they were still being made. No dice....
1:45 The "brown shirted authorities." Such deadpan British understatement.
I LOVE THE 411, my friend has 5. It is such a fantastic auto.
The first affordable "people's car" was the Ford Model T, and after that the second "people's car" was likely the product of workers in the USSR (GAZ, ZIL or something like the two).
If they come out with the air cooled old school VW beetle I would buy it.
Mexico stopped manufacturing the Beetle not so long ago...you can find it there
The problem with the engine's design was it wouldn't meet emissions regulations, even after VW went to electronic fuel injection in the 70s. Being air cooled, engine temperature couldn't be regulated enough for expansion and emissions numbers would skyrocket when it burned more than a trace of engine oil. To completely re-engineer the the engine to conform to today's first-World standards, you'd end up with something resembling Subaru's boxer engine anyway. Liquid cooled, overhead cams, 20 lbs of wiring and electronics for engine management... and then all of the other mandates that were required for sale. Emissions and economy standards. Safety legislation. You couldn't build that car today. The entire car was a crumple zone when they cut back on the budget for 68 and used thinner steel for everything. The giant 5 mph bumpers were ugly, the elephant foot taillights were enormous, and emissions were futilly addressed with a catalytic converter that didn't really make much difference except to choke the performance of an already anemic engine. To give you an idea how that car would look if they still tried to build one, look at the size of a Honda Civic from the 90s, and look at one now. It's twice the size.
I have a 73 Volkswagen Beetle.
I got a 72 Squareback..
Does someone has the full documentary?
My mom who was a terrrible driver owned a 411 when I grew up in my beloved Germany
Though now you can drop my beloved as Germany is no more
My 1958 was fairly close to the original German ones. Great especially in Montreal winter but you needed your overcoat
Outstanding road holding, clearly never driven one
You missed it by about 30 years. The Ford Model T was the first car for the masses. The VW was a car designed for the masses in Europe. Ford was also producing cars in Britain on a mass scale before the VW as were the French with the Citroen.
Henry Ford went to Germany under the guidance of Karl Benz to learn how to mass produce a car
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman Somebody told you a fairy tale. Ford was already mass producing Model T cars and was the largest manufacture in the world when he went to Germany in 1925 to set up the German Ford Company. Karl Benz was 81 years old in 1925 ( died in 1929) and Ford may have paid a courtesy visit to him as one of the early pioneers of automobiles, but there was no business involvement. In any event, that does not change the fact that Ford was the first mass produced vehicle designed for the common man decades ahead of VW.
Ford model T saw over 16 million produced in 14 years,1914 to 1928 (correct me if I am wrong!!) it took Volkswagen around or over 3 decades to equal this number....
I think that the Model T Ford was the first car for the masses.
Yes,that is a fact,Model T came in 1909
My brain shuddered when it went from 1939 to 1978. The entire development of the Beetle through the war years to world export just vanished.
Even with that gap they were still decent car up too the last in 2003.
Omg So Beutiful!
the only small car that looks intimidating
Sim Volkswagen primeiro carro das massas do povo 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤😊😊
To complete the story of the Beetle see the docu" How Josef Ganz lost the Maikäfer "!
the Golf was known as the Rabbit in USA
microbusss its only a rabbit gti if it has square headlights and a really big back window
oh I had Rabbits in USA that had ROUND headlights
Rabbits are more fuel efficient than golf's and have square headlights
Thank Heavens the NUS prototype was saved.
3:31 "Non of the savers got his car" The savers eventually got a complete free car OR a partial discount based on verified proof of percentage paid toward the original KDF Wagen from post war VW.
My dream car with much history.
First car for the masses? How bout the MOdel T? "the Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Leaping Lena, or flivver) is an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.[6][7] It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class"
@@fatsocurrywurst3139 both cars were created in the same century. The model T was a master of conquering the terrain that was before mass roads were built. The early beetles had mechanical brakes like the model T. They had similar power and neither were capable of high speeds. The earliest beetles are not the cars you remember. They were also plagued with early design problems. I love beetles and have a 1963 convertible. I trained to work at a repair shop called Autohaus. I have an uncle that restored a Model T and I have experience with those also. For the time and conditions of travel (meaning few roads) the Model T would be far superior.
Here's a major problem with this claim Gantz came up with a tiny, short, mid-engine, water cooled, extremely large wheeled car with a different style of chassis that looks nothing like a Volkswagen Beetle. Every single one of his cars look nothing like a Volkswagen Beetle.
What Ferdinand Porsche did is what every single automotive maker has ever done they looked at other designs and went oh wow how can I take that and improve it and that's exactly what happened. Ferdinand came up with a better chassis a better engine and a better design.
For anyone to sit there and say that the beetle was invented by Joseph Gantz is ludicrous because nothing against ever did saw fruition in the Beetle
They killed the air cooled because of emissions. Cost of adding emissions equipment and room for installing it made the allurer not good. The water pumper beetle was only to appease the beetle desiring people and was super hard to work on and not efficient. Old air cooled were where its at. Then came the diesel scandal...another story.
Firstly, I've got a 1.6 VW diesel that came with a pack of lies. Early beetle 6.5Litres/100Km? Yeah! Nothing changes!
Secondly, I worked, in the 1990s, for a company supplying test gear to auto manufacturers. We had a German sales representative who assured us that as soon as you walked into VW premises, you were in no doubt as to who had founded the company. It wasn't Herr Porsche, it wasn't the KDF....... go on, have a guess!
Gasoline consumption of 36 mpg usa gallons.
The 1st car for the masses was the ford model T.
Ever heard of Ford model-T??
"Ferdinand Porsche, a brilliant inventor and designer"
*fiat multipla enters*
@Victor Block story goes they gave ganz a lot of money ganz wasn't allowed to talk about it " we give you this $$ and you don't say a word " in which ganz didn't he took it to his grave vw won't and wouldn't say why they gave ganz $$$ but it just makes sense if you look back he sues vw/porsche / Hitler in the 30s for steeling his car design and years later he gets money from them ...my understanding is he got millions or maybe a million vw and ganz had a deal that was to never be spoken of .many say he got millions or maybe a million 🤔 by what I've seen in the past years ...but at the end vw did gave him money 💰 I see that as guilty as can be ....I still give porsche his credit in the vw beetle ...
Indestructible seems like the wrong word... perpetually respectable seems more appropriate.
Most all automakers should learn from Germany’s vw maker keep it nice and simple the same body style bring back semaphore turn signals I see as one of the best ways to signal for turns easy to see get rid of the very bright headlights much brighter than my bright lites on my 1970vw square back mini station wagen we need to do better designs on auto bodies to have much less blind spots nothing in hp motors that could be driven over sixty mph more smaller autos make for less crowded roads safer driving less computers no gps maps bring back map books atlases hagstroms Geografia honesty when more cared new costumers by name never rigged gasoline pumps to over charge you or for what gasoline you never got on the same model autos why change body styles every two or three years unless improvements we donot need abs brake systems very cost time consuming to fix I was told three days 2000$$ I left it alone used old fashion way on brake pedal no wonder things donot sell very costly all of us are not millionaires billionaires have patience for daze while in shops for repairs it was nicer when more simplier tho some of this is our government regulations running our lives for so called cleaner air our health some of this is nicer if we only drove less idiling our autos much too much wastes fuel cost $$$$$$$$donot ask many things should be done for the better but will not happen because of the volks are or when scrap metal prices are high they steal make it bad for us honest ones or they slam on brakes finding the metal easy does it is best I will admit I never was alway the best how I did it some learn some well we all should walk more cycle ride more drive in nicer ways easier planned routes so we drive less get more done in a day I could say more but it is easy to do if we just think plan our dazes weather may hurt at times our health haste makes waste thank you for letting me do my opions experiences what I know from my past we donot always need more$$$$$$$$ just use some proper Sense you may save some money time enjoy life more have more free ime be healthier and what is very annoying is as say easy does it when using five cent return container machines llife is more enjoyable less time working no but how many will not be this way they donot have the patience drs nurses can not live without them some volks are hard to figure out they way they are worrying about others how much money we earn have sex live sorry none outside persons looks yourself comes first or should I donot have all the answers know it all but have seen plenty wrong or right done college education is overrated not for us all very costly years to pay loans if ever done when you need a loan then go see the lone arangerdo these volks really do high pay jobs after graduation some ok but I wish things were not always so complicated some make it that way cause thier own problems enough already said I past comments I love some replies to my things I come first then other who it depends senorita amigo and me why if I was like others watching others all day long as some do to me I’d have more becoming of a nervous wreck I see plenty in my daily living only worry if reallly to worry over crime bothering me stealing from me you want it then go work for it as I do or get lost and mind your own business adios for now
and its just a Tatra that Mr Porsche copied.
Adolf Hitler stole the idea for the iconic Volkswagen Beetle from Josef Ganz - the Jewish engineer behind Hitler's Volkswagen
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086663/Hitler-copied-idea-iconic-Volkswagen-Beetle-Jewish-engineer-historian-claims.html#ixzz4rSKNoume
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebookand had him written out of history, a historian has sensationally claimed.
The Nazi leader has always been given credit for sketching out the early concept for the car in a meeting with car designer Ferdinand Porsche in 1935.
that is ridiculous and stupid, nothing to due with joseph Ganz except the style from the rear from the beatle, because, all, the technique and the global style comes from Tatra and he's engineer Hans Ledwinka...
i wish Kris, no there is older than Tatra Prototypes of Porsches,Beatles and that famous Tatra nicked from Porsche more likely ....
Well..the whole Country Boehmen and Maeren ( Tscheko - Slovodka since 1918 ) has been a German/Austrian - Provence thousands of Years ( its only small really ) so whatever Ferdinand, Bobesch and Lolek constructed in them Times ( Rear - Engined - Cars all look similar of that Time ) so whats next the Germans stole the Pils - ( Lager ) receipt from Tschecko, Nene Towarisch, hehe...
My name's also kristopher and my last name starts with p and drive a vw ....twilight zoned
Ford Model T ?
T was the first mass car
Porsche doesn't have at the end of his surname.
Josef Gantz created the original
I guess that's why Ford built a plant in the Weimar Republic to build 2.3 MILLION Model T Fords! Then shifted production to Model AAA's (NOT US Model A's or AA's) with a 2.5L (instead of 3.1 Liter) 4 cylinder engine and FOUR-speed manual un-sychronized transmission. I've seen examples of BOTH at the Henry Ford Museum. Then GM/OPEL flooded the European continent with cars/light trucks/delivery vans. The French and Italian automakers couldn't compete with the engine displacement/HP taxes Hitler ignored. Should we consider Mitsubishi back in 1898 in Japan and THEIR "People's car"??? A two-seat open-top 700cc two-stroke design with a top speed of about 12 MPH that sold for the princely sum of (about) $700 USD compared to the Duryea for $2400?
V W. The best of the best.No better than V W.
Model T ...? Austin 7? Fiat 500 "Topolino"?
Don't mention the war!!!
What the ww2
Why
@@dddf27 its a joke from an english tv show
@@Colt45hatchback oh ok
@@dddf27 faulty towers with john cleese