Wednesday, October 12, 2005

No Prizes For Knowing This One



Nice example of a Beetle.
Designed by Ferdinand Porsche in the thirties for the Nazi Party, and put into limited production as the 'volkswagen' or 'peoples car'.
Production was restarted under British Army management in the forties. The swastika was dropped from the VW symbol.
Production ended in Brazil in the 90s, but the car lives on.
No.
Not the new 'Beetle'( a reskinned Golf), but in the Porsche 911, which retains the original design layout to this day.

1 comment:

Sky Captain said...

Alas; we shall not see the like of 'shawn' again, for I have turned on comment word verification.