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July 30, 2003: Last Vee-Dub Marks the End of an Automotive Era

Posted July 30, 2012 9:32 AM
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From Wired Top Stories:

The last "old style" Volkswagen Beetle rolls off a Mexican assembly line.

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07/30/2012 12:01 PM

I recall Volkswagen "The Thing" hit the US market. Looked just like a WWII German Staff Car. I thought that it looked cool. But it did have safety compliance issues it couldn't overcome.

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07/31/2012 5:58 AM

It was the WWII German Staff car, Hitler himself ordered Porche to design and set up production for a car for the people (= Volkswagen auf Deutch)

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07/31/2012 7:57 AM

It was a very interesting article.

On a few side notes:

  • And in WWII Porsche was in big player in the German Defense with the building of it armor vehicles such as Tiger I & II as well as the Panzer tanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche

  • I believe recently, Volkswagen just bought out the reminder of Porsche's stock.
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