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Author : Richard Copping
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784420212
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volkswagen Beetle written by Richard Copping and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few cars have achieved the iconic status of Volkswagen's classic and much-loved Beetle – yet its origins are intertwined with the dark days of Nazism. This book looks at those origins, at the marque's initial post-war rescue by the British and the effect of early VW Director General Heinz Nordhoff's forward-looking desire to perfect one model rather than spread the company's talent over a range of designs, at the impact of radical-minded advertising campaigns and at the Beetle's never-to-be-beaten production record for a single model of nearly 22 million cars. Bringing the reader right up to the present day, marque expert Richard A. Copping recounts the Beetle's story in a lively and authoritative manner guaranteed to delight devotee and casual browser alike.

Author : Richard Copping
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144568893X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VW Beetle written by Richard Copping and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by colour illustrations, this is the inside story of the legendary people’s car - VW Beetle.

Author : Ryan Lee Price
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781557884213
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The VW Beetle written by Ryan Lee Price and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most popular car, Volkswagen-or "the People's Car"-has earned its place in history. The VW Beetle chronicles the development and rise to worldwide popularity of the famed "punch-buggy," invented in Germany in the 1930s. This peculiar history includes the makings of all models, engines, and body styles through 1967-and the key people responsible for its development.

Author : Richard Copping
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845847326
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VW Beetle written by Richard Copping and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beetle’s full story, from concept in pre-war Germany through 55 years of production & 22-million sales around the world. Colour features on 21 milestone models. Includes many sidebars & panels detailing Beetle facts, figures, feats, advertising, & more. The complete book of the Beetle.

Author : Richard Copping
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1787116433
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volkswagen Beetle written by Richard Copping and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VW Beetle is simply the best-known and most-loved car in the history of the motor car. Amazingly, some of the earliest Beetles, now seven decades old, are still on the road, while more recent examples, particularly the classics from the late 1950s and '60s are many an enthusiast's pride and joy. Created through the ingenuity of Ferdinand Porsche, brought to the brink of series production by Hitler's Nazis and rescued from oblivion by the British after the war, the Beetle soon developed into a phenomenon under the guardianship of Heinz Nordhoff, the VW boss for two decades. Overwhelmingly successful in over 150 countries across the world, most notably in the USA; when the car finally fell from grace in Europe after Nordhoff's death, it was destined to enjoy a revitalised and lengthy swansong in South America. The legendary Beetle’s intriguing story is unravelled in this fascinating and handsome book.

Author : Malcolm Bobbitt
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1787118339
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet written by Malcolm Bobbitt and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Malcolm Bobbitt – whose companion Volkswagen titles cover the Karmann Ghia coupé and convertible, and possibly the greatest classic of all time, the VW Bus – this new edition of Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet chronicles the history of this practical and sought after convertible Beetles from the classic era. The author traces the Beetle Cabrio’s ancestry from its pre-war origins, following its development through to 1980, by which time more than 330,000 examples had been built, and up to the present day, when the New Beetle cabriolet continues to be in strong demand worldwide. As VW’s engineering quality has ensured a very high survival rate, this book is also a guide to Beetle Cabrio ownership, providing buying advice, specifications, and information on customising. Includes a chapter devoted to the New Beetle.

Author : Eric LeClair
Publisher : CarTech Inc
ISBN 13 : 1613255470
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volkswagen Beetle: How to Build & Modify written by Eric LeClair and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build and modify your Volkswagen Beetle using today’s greatest aftermarket parts while implementing historic and modern modifications! If ever a car rolled off the factory floor in the form of a blank slate, the VW Beetle is it. In fact, after taking delivery of their beloved Bug, many owners began modifications and customizations to personalize their favorite German compact. Perhaps the most charismatic automobile ever, the Volkswagen Beetle was the longest-running, most-manufactured automobile on a single platform in automotive history. From 1938 to 2003, more than 21.5 million Bugs were assembled, distributed, and sold on nearly every continent in the world. If there’s a component that owners can modify, they’ll do it, and each custom touch makes them love their Beetle even more. Airkooled Kustoms, a Volkswagen restoration and modification shop in Hazel Green, Alabama, has served all kinds of classic Volkswagen owners. For those who venture into the world of customization, no modern or historic trend is off-limits. These Volkswagen experts introduce and walk you through some of the most glorious customizations that Beetle owners can make to their rides. You’ll find inspiration, instruction, and more modifications than most owners could ever tackle in a lifetime.

Author : Terry Shuler
Publisher : HP Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Evolution of the VW Beetle written by Terry Shuler and published by HP Trade. This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernhard Rieger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674075757
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People’s Car written by Bernhard Rieger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile—the Volkswagen Beetle—was one of the most beloved in the world. Bernhard Rieger examines culture and technology, politics and economics, and industrial design and advertising genius to reveal how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became an exceptional global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. Beyond its quality and low cost, the Beetle’s success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of people across nations and cultures. In West Germany, it came to stand for the postwar “economic miracle” and helped propel Europe into the age of mass motorization. In the United States, it was embraced in the suburbs, and then prized by the hippie counterculture as an antidote to suburban conformity. As its popularity waned in the First World, the Beetle crawled across Mexico and Latin America, where it symbolized a sturdy toughness necessary to thrive amid economic instability. Drawing from a wealth of sources in multiple languages, The People’s Car presents an international cast of characters—executives and engineers, journalists and advertisers, assembly line workers and car collectors, and everyday drivers—who made the Beetle into a global icon. The Beetle’s improbable story as a failed prestige project of the Third Reich which became a world-renowned brand illuminates the multiple origins, creative adaptations, and persisting inequalities that characterized twentieth-century globalization.

Author : Andrea Hiott
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345521447
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Small written by Andrea Hiott and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of Madison Avenue, beguiled Woodstock Nation, and has recently been re-imagined for the hipster generation. And while today it is surely one of the most recognizable cars in the world, few of us know the compelling details of this car’s story. In Thinking Small, journalist and cultural historian Andrea Hiott retraces the improbable journey of this little car that changed the world. Andrea Hiott’s wide-ranging narrative stretches from the factory floors of Weimar Germany to the executive suites of today’s automotive innovators, showing how a succession of artists and engineers shepherded the Beetle to market through periods of privation and war, reconstruction and recovery. Henry Ford’s Model T may have revolutionized the American auto industry, but for years Europe remained a place where only the elite drove cars. That all changed with the advent of the Volkswagen, the product of a Nazi initiative to bring driving to the masses. But Hitler’s concept of “the people’s car” would soon take on new meaning. As Germany rebuilt from the rubble of World War II, a whole generation succumbed to the charms of the world’s most huggable automobile. Indeed, the story of the Volkswagen is a story about people, and Hiott introduces us to the men who believed in it, built it, and sold it: Ferdinand Porsche, the visionary Austrian automobile designer whose futuristic dream of an affordable family vehicle was fatally compromised by his patron Adolf Hitler’s monomaniacal drive toward war; Heinrich Nordhoff, the forward-thinking German industrialist whose management innovations made mass production of the Beetle a reality; and Bill Bernbach, the Jewish American advertising executive whose team of Madison Avenue mavericks dreamed up the legendary ad campaign that transformed the quintessential German compact into an outsize worldwide phenomenon. Thinking Small is the remarkable story of an automobile and an idea. Hatched in an age of darkness, the Beetle emerged into the light of a new era as a symbol of individuality and personal mobility—a triumph not of the will but of the imagination.