Hi everyone.

Today, I'm making a thread on Voltswagons.

What are Voltswagons?

Volkswagen (VW; German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡən]; English: /ˈvoʊks.wæɡ.ən/) is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Volkswagen is the original and top-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, the biggest German automaker and the second biggest automaker in the world.

Volkswagen has three cars in the top 10 list of best-selling cars of all time compiled by the website 24/7 Wall St: the Volkswagen Golf, the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Volkswagen Passat. With these three cars, Volkswagen has the most cars of any automobile manufacturer in the list that are still being manufactured.[1] Volkswagen ranks first in spending the most money of any automaker on research and development.[2]

Volkswagen means "people's car" in German. Its current slogan is Das Auto ("The Car").

Volkswagens are my favorite car type, and I've always wanted one.

Here are some photos:




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FUN FACTS!
Volkwagen does infact come from Germany.


Ironically, the idea for the Volkswagen, 'People's car', came from Adolf Hitler. He chose Ferdinand Porsche to engineer a car that could carry 2 adults and 3 children, and that could do 100km/h (62mph). And the idea was, that people could buy it trough an affordable savings scheme. That's how the base for the VW Beetle was born.

The first prototypes were called KdF-Wagen. (German: Kraft durch Freude - "strength through joy")

The legendary beetle was produced from 1938 up to 2003. That's astonishing 65 years! We all know how fast car manufacturers switch and/or update their models today.

There were 21,529,464 built beetles, of which 15,444,858 in Germany, incl. 330,251 Cabriolets, and about 3,350,000 in Brazil.


After the War in 1944, the Wolfsburg factory where the VW Beetle's were being made had no means of internal transport.
So the people who worked in the experimental department came up with the idea of a flat bed truck utilizing parts from another vehicle - the kubelwagen. Ben Pon came up with the idea of moving the cab forward and covering the flatbed over. The first prototype for the now world famous VW camper was born.


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I will add more *FUN FACTS!* soon. You can also give me facts to add.

My dad's car is a VW passat that's the same age as me
still works beautifully

My friend, you are on the wrong side- BMW is where it's all at

Dingleberey a dit :

My friend, you are on the wrong side- BMW is where it's all at

Well, on here you can make any thread as long as it is not lacking disscussion value, etc.

So I'm not on the wrong site.

Erikadeedee a dit :

Well, on here you can make any thread as long as it is not lacking disscussion value, etc.

So I'm not on the wrong site.

uh that's not even close to what he meant

well kind of...

You can't spell volkswagen without swag. xD PS: The first post hurtss