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HISTORY OF THE VOLKSWAGEN
Introduction
The Volkswagen Sedán, officially called Volkswagen Tipo 1, is a car of low cost produced by the German manufacturer Volkswagen between the year 1938 and 2003, this way initiating the epoch of the Second World war. It was the first car of the brand, and they constructed and sold more than 21 million units
Though a limited number of "beetles" wereconstructed for civil use, initially for the elite Nazi, in the years 1940-1945, but very reduced probably in reason of the shortage of petrol during the war. Some of them could be supplied by derivatives of the pyrolysis of wood. Additional to the military already mentioned vehicles there was made other one named; Kommandeurwagen, which already was possessing the whole aspect of the current Sedan, whichwas mounted to the chassis 4WD of the Kübelwagen being these a total of 669.
The Volkswagen is a car of four squares with back engine and back, available traction with auto body’s sedan and convertible of two doors. The Beetle is a car of worship in numerous subcultures, as the hippie and the tuning, Though officially this car was called " Volkswagen Tipo 1 " or "Volkswagen Sedán", it receivednumerous nicknames that then were adopted by Volkswagen in his advertising and nomenclatura: Escarabajo in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, El Salvador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru; also
As Pichirilo in Colombia and Ecuador, Congorocho in Venezuela; Käfer in Germany, Peta in Bolivia, Fusca in Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay; called Sapito in Peru, Kupla in Finland, Coccinelle in France,Cockroach in Guatemala and Honduras, Maggiolino enItalia, Poncho in Chile, Vocho in Mexico, Costa Rica and other countries of Center America, Garbus (annoyed) in Poland, lace-bobbin ó Volky in Puerto Rico, Brush in Dominican Republic, Kaplumbaga in Turkey??? (Zhuk) (Insect) in Russia and Beetle or Bug in the Anglo-Saxon countries
Clucks origins of this car go back about 1925 when Béla Barényisent his concepts to Maschinenbauanstalt Wien, then In 1933 Hitler met Ferdinand Porsche to discuss the development of a "Volkswagen" popular or rather said Vehicle a car for the people (within reach of the popular economy), a basic vehicle that should be capable of transporting two adults and three children to a maximum speed of 100 km/h (62 mph), and that must cost not more than 990 Reichsmarks.Ferdinand formulated the original parameters of the Volkswagen many years before being commissioned. Nevertheless his production came to be financially viable when there was endorsed by the Third Reich, Erwin Komenda, chief of Porsche's design, was the person in charge of the design and style of the car
The chassis and the machinery of the Type 1 were used in a great number of military vehiclesincluding The Kübelwagen - that later was adapted to the Volkswagen Tipo 181 (Acquaintance like "Thing" in The United States and "Safari" in Latin America) - and the amphibious vehicle Schwimmwagen construed in minor number.
After this the Volkswagen was remodelled across the years, some of the new models preserve the characteristics of his predecessors, such as the Sedan. In 2012 it will be lastyear in which it will be possible see ' vochos' en the city of Mexico before they are withdrawn from the streets to be later accused as scrap. Victor Ramirez, the director of the Service of Passengers' Public Individual Transport, has been the one who has announced the official notice of which the intimate taxis type vocho will disappear, in order to change to new vehicles and to reduce the indexesof pollution.
In the fifties the Beetle turns into a vehicle of great social acceptance so much into Europe as America. In 1955 the copy went out of the factory a million, and in 1972 the Beetle, since already he was known in the whole world, overcame the record of made units of a car.
In 1978 the Beetle stopped being made of Germany....

THE BEGINNINGS
Ferdinand Porsche was born in...
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