'68 Volkswagen Beetle - California Wheels Edition

Published: February 22, 2020
Company: Revell

The Volkswagen Beetle, officially called the Volkswagen Type 1 (or informally, the Volkswagen Bug), is an economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003. The need for this kind of car, and its functional objectives, were formulated by Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, wishing for a cheap, simple car to be mass-produced for the new road network of his country. He contracted Porsche in 1934 to design and build it to his exacting standards. Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalize the design; one of the first rear-engine cars. With over 21 million manufactured (21,529,464 exactly) in an air-cooled, rear-engine, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform,… more