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The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, [a] is a small family car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003. [ b ] One of the most iconic cars in automotive history, the Beetle is noted for its distinctive shape.
Having been exported to many countries, the VW Beetle has gained an arguably unequaled reputation. [1] [2] The Volkswagen Type 1 automobile, also known as the Volkswagen Beetle or Bug, [3] is known colloquially by various names in different countries, usually local renderings of the word "beetle". [4] [5] Among these are:
Volkswagen Beetle (Type 1) (1938–2003) Volkswagen Brasília (1973–1982) Volkswagen Country Buggy (1967–1969) Volkswagen Gacel (1983–1991) Volkswagen Hebmüller Cabriolet (1949–1953) Volkswagen Karmann Ghia (1955–1974, also sold as Type 34 Karmann Ghia, 1500 Karmann Ghia Coupe) Volkswagen Kommandeurswagen (1941–1944) staff car for ...
Brazilian version of the Beetle (A5), named Fusca. The Volkswagen Beetle, also sold as the Volkswagen Käfer, Volkswagen Coccinelle, Volkswagen Maggiolino, and Volkswagen Fusca in some countries, is a small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen introduced in 2011 for the 2012 model year, as the successor to the New Beetle launched in 1997.
Mechanically the Type 14A was the same as the Beetle saloon with mechanical brakes, and the Type 1's' 19-kilowatt (26 PS; 25 bhp) petrol engine. It also shared the Type 1's crank starting, [ 2 ] and the cabriolet's cowl-mounted semaphore turn signals [ 3 ] and its pushbutton Telefunken radio. [ 4 ]
The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...
View of the Vochol. The Vochol is a Volkswagen (VW) Beetle that has been decorated with traditional Huichol (Wirrárika) beadwork from the center-west of Mexico. The name created by José Jaime Volochinsky is a combination of "vocho", a popular term for VW Beetles in Mexico, and "Huichol", the common name of the Wirrárika indigenous group. [1]
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