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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.
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]
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".
A Texas Beetle proudly presents its rear, air cooled engine, a staple of the Beetle's design. - Mirja Vogel Two vibrant, carefully-remodelled Vochos with their signature curved bonnets in Oaxaca ...
A 1951 Volkswagen Beetle. After the war in Europe, in June 1945, Major Ivan Hirst [21] of the British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) took control of the bomb-shattered factory for use in repairing British Army vehicles, pending the expected disposal of the plant tooling and equipment as war reparations. However, no ...
The Volkswagen New Beetle is a compact car introduced by Volkswagen in 1997, drawing heavy inspiration from the exterior design of the original Beetle. Unlike the original Beetle, the New Beetle has its engine in the front, driving the front wheels, with luggage storage in the rear. It received a facelift in 2005 and was in production until ...
the early generations were retroactively named, the T1 is the oldest "platform", based on the original Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle. Note that some designations in common use are ambiguous; i.e. in some cases the same platform designation is used for different models that do not share a common platform.
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