The Ultima Edicion Beetles cost 84,000 Mexican pesos at dealer ... a factory site selected and Hitler announced the car's name: The KdF-Wagen. KdF stood for "Kraft durch Freude" or "strength ...

That said, the Mini of this millennium has done well from the get-go to appeal to the masses despite its cute proportions and quirky nature, while the New Beetle spoke volumes to its demographic ...

When Adolph Hitler first tapped Ferdinand Porsche in the 1930s to build the Kraft durch Freude (KdF) Wagen, or the Strength through Joy Car (aka the Beetle), there was no way of knowing that ...

The Beetle was commissioned in the 1930s by Adolf Hitler as the "people's car" (or volks wagen in German). Designed by Ferdinand Porsche, the curvy car was affordable, practical and reliable.

Mass production of what was called the KdF-Wagen, based on the acronym of the ... By 1955, the one millionth Beetle – officially called the Type 1 – had rolled off the assembly line in what ...

based on the KdF Wagen (you know, the Beetle) chassis. If we don't count VW's commercial vehicles and the passenger vehicles based on them, the Type 2 vans and microbuses, Volkswagen wouldn't sell ...

Yet to the casual observer, this 1978 example, carefully preserved by Volkswagen U.K. as one of the final Germany-built Beetles, looks pretty much identical to the KdF-Wagen that Hitler had ...

Famous for the Volkswagen Beetle, Type 2 Bus ... This led to another name being used for the car: KdF-Wagen. KdF’s goal was to use the Volkswagen to increase private car ownership in Germany ...

The same events also meant that the then-named KDF-Wagen had to be put on hold for the German war effort. The factory slated for Beetle production was converted to military use and was heavily ...

Basically, all of those cars were built and sold during the modern post-World War II era of VW, since only a few hundred ...