TRIVIA BITS …
VW BEETLE
In 1945, the first Volkswagen Beetles were made in a factory in Germany.
It was not until 1967 that the name "Beetle" or "Bug" was used for the car; before that, the car was referred to as the "Type 1", "1200", "1300", or "1500", with the numbers representing the engine size in cubic centimetres.
The Beetle was first imported into the United States in 1949 with very little success. Then a second attempt to import them began in the early 1950s and in 1953 sales began to improve. In 1972, the Beetle overtook the Ford Model T as the most popular car ever made.
In 1981, the 20,000,000th Beetle rolled off the production line in Mexico. The last new original Beetle was sold in the United States in 1978, but it continued to be produced in Mexico up to the 2004 model. In 1998, an updated model called the "New Beetle" appeared in the United States.
Volkswagen means "people's car" in German.
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