Friday, March 5, 2010

The People's Car


1932 Volkswagen Beetle Type 12 (Zundapp Prototype)


1933 Tatra V570

This car is not a Volkswagen even though it looks much like one.
The T97 was designed in 1933 as a smaller alternative to the large T87. Instead of a V8, it was powered by a 1.8-litre flat-four engine. With engine power of 29.4 kilowatts (40.0 PS/39.4 bhp) the car could achieve top speed of 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph).[1] The design was also simplified, using just two headlights instead of three, a single-piece windscreen, and an overall smaller body. Production of the car was canceled after the Nazis annexed Czechoslovakia in 1938, possibly to avoid comparison with the KdF-Wagen (see below). At that time, 508 cars were built. In 1946, production resumed, but the new communist government quickly dropped the T97 in favor of the cheaper to build and overall 'more communistic' Tatraplan, which was named after the Communist Planned Economy.


193? Volkswagen Beetle Series 3


193? Volkswagen Beetle Series 3 Cabriolet


193? Volkswagen Beetle V-1 Experimental Chassis


1933 Volkswagen Beetle Type 32 NSU


1936 Volkswagen Beetle Daimler-Benz Cabriolet


1936 Volkswagen Beetle Type 60


1936 Volkswagen Beetle Type 60


1936 Volkswagen Prototype


1937 Volkswagen Beetle Type 60


1937 VW Cabriolet


1937 Volkswagen


1938 VW Model 38


1938 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible


1939 VW KdF Wagon Ad


1942 Volkswagen 4 Wheel Drive Beetle Type 87


1944 Volkswagen Beetle Type 877


1945 Volkswagen Beetle


1946 Volkswagen Beetle


1946 Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet Prototype


1946 Volkswagen Beetle Pickup


1947 Volkswagen Beetle


1948 Volkswagen Beetle


1949 Volkswagen Beetle


1949 Volkswagen Beetle Hebmuller Cabriolet Type-14a


1949 Volkswagen Hebmller Cabriolet


1950 VW Beetle Convertible


1950 VW Beetle Deluxe Sunroof Sedan


1951 Volkswagen Beetle


1951 VW Beetle Deluxe Sedan


1952 Volkswagen Beetle


1952 VW Beetle Stoll Coupe


1952 VW Hebmuller Beetle Type-18A Polizei Cabriolet


1953 Volkswagen Beetle


1954 Volkswagen Beetle


1955 VW Beetle Deluxe Sedan


1955 VW 1 Millionth Celebration


1956 Volkswagen 1200


1956 VW Beetle Deluxe Sedan


1956 VW Beetle Karmann Convertible


1957 VW Beetle Deluxe Sedan


1958 VW Beetle Deluxe Sedan


1959 VW Beetle Deluxe Sedan


1959 VW Beetle Interior


1960 VW Beetle Sunroof




1947, 1951, 1952 and 1955

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