THE BUG: LIFE AND TIMES OF THE PEOPLE'S CAR Exclusive Car Classic Documentary 🎬 English HD 2024

[@marwellus1]

Being a German, though born '75, I feel deeply touched by this. After we caused the worst nightmarish catastrophe imaginable in the 20th century, at least we built a car that still puts a smile into peoples faces and ended up being symbol of peacefulness and freedom. It meant a lot to us - or at least to my father. He felt quite responsible and guilty himself even though he'd been to young back than, but he grew up in the WW2 and saw the world burning and the ashes and ruins that it left behind. Every time we watched the Disney Herby movies (they run countless times on tv) he wanted me close to him - it took me years to understand what had been going on in him. Hey always said: "Look, they love our car! Can you believe this? They really love it." - Sorry, I couldn't resist to tell this. Really great documentary! Have a nice one! :)

[@Docentino1914]

Being a Pole (born late 1970s) I did inherit some hatred towards Germans -- yet, by the time I was a teen, it was mostly just jokes and stereotypes. One thing we joke here often and dearly is: Germans Cars! Some realy are legendary! The buggy - we call it "humpbackee" def. is a legend. Grusse!

[@hertzair1186]

Germany did not solely cause WW2….the Allies Treaty of Versailles did.

[@roberttaylor9563]

If I may...I came out of school in 71 and mine was a 71 before the super beetles came out .....when I got married I had a 411, and a vw rabbit Still wish I had my beetle though.

[@williamslater-o5b]

​@roberttaylor9563 1971 was the first year of the super beetle. The super beetle still had the flat windshield till 1972. In 1973, Volkswagen put the curved windshield on the super beetle and the convertible, also built as a super beetle.

[@roberttaylor9563]

I personally am glad you did ....to this day i am a history buff and a car buff all at one time......here's something for you .....I got married in my 20's and I bought another vw rear engine car...call VW 411...station wagon type,...trunk in the front. ....one of the few vw ever talked about.I 'm going to see if I can find any history on that car.

[@tonyzed6831]

That's what cars truly are about. Moving, but also making memories.

[@michaelbujanda8785]

I Mom and Dad owned a VW Beetle when they were newlyweds back in 1967!!!! They had it for 4 years and and traded it for a VW station wagon because I came around!!!! LOL!!!😂😂😂 My Dad said that the VW Beetle was very reliable, dependable, great on gas mileage and it never broke down!!!! For the length of time they owned it !!!! They said they needed a family car when I was born!!!! I wish they still owned that car!!!! Its a classic!!!!😊😊😊

[@LynxStarAuto]

They aren't lying about the reliability. If you stay on top of the basics, it will run and run and run and run. Start in any weather, idle anywhere. As long as you keep it full of good fuel (non ethanol), stay on top of the oil, and maybe add a pusher fan from a Porsche to help force air into the engine compartment, if the vehicle sees a lot of traffic. That's pretty much it. I had a cousin car, a Karmann Ghia for quite sometime. Live in South Florida, so I added an AC kit. That required more maintenance to keep clean and such, due to the location of the condensers (under vehicle). But, outside of that, car just never let me down.

[@elkinposada2971]

Exellent production. Congratulations!!! I'm 72 years old and I always loved the BUG.I never drove nor owned one. Someone in my family or friends had a BUG at some point in their lives. It brings me fond memories of my childhood back home in my country Colombia 🇨🇴. Thanks a lot. Great job 👍👍

[@patrickgunaselan4382]

what a beautiful story to VW lovers ....

[@louishumphreys5451]

Cool video. The Bug must be the most recognized car in the world. I will have one yet. Gotta love 'em.

[@ZAR797]

I bought a new VW Beetle in 1976. Drove it for 20 years, maintenance was relatively easy and I did most of it myself. Still miss my VeeDub, great car. Used it to travel to work, and many memorable holiday trips in South Africa.

[@keithad6485]

I am considering buying a 1976 beetle 1600 which has been sitting in a garage since 1990 and not started in all that time. Covered in decades of dust. For some strange reason it is missing its front seats. Currently belongs to a long time buddy of mine.

[@davidtuley5898]

We have a sweet 68” bug that took a lot of TLC to get him road worthy again. He, Fillmore, is a driver not a trailer queen and we love him as he is. This my 3rd one, bought my first one at 18. 2 were early 70’s models. Drove those cars everywhere, every kind of weather. My Buddy rolled the first one, rebuilt it, later sold it because of trans problems. Sold the 2nd one in the late 90’ to buy a pickup. Got the 68 about 4 years ago on a trade for a 6 cylinder 2001 Mustang. I never give this one up.

[@MyzelleJenkins]

30 min in and I’m already scrolling through eBay ads missing my ‘71 Westy. Excellent documentary on all levels!!

[@scofab]

I had a 1303 for a while. Those were the best of times, and those were the worst of times. But sometimes I still miss her. Well done, thank you.

[@iam_anderdingus]

Fantastic- brought a tear to my eye. Had a ‘68 a few years ago and am hoping to get another one soon

[@LAURABOHDAN]

Excellent presentation. I own an original '74 Sun Bug convertible.

[@toddvanwinkle7777]

Well what a nice documentary!!! ❤ 😅

[@chuckchin5450]

Such a beautiful film..

[@GForceVRX]

Fantastic video, it’s most definitely a special car

[@PopeDreamsAuthor]

I Just got my '71 Type 3 back on the road. I'd owned a '69 in the 80s and have missed it ever since. I'm falling in love all over again.

[@habershamjim]

Excellent

[@jpvill4th]

Wonderful telling of a long story. Bought my first used Beetle in 1972 and my second 1972 Super Beetle in 2019; not needing restoration because it was in storage in Germany for something like 39 years. It has the equivalent of 33,000 miles on the clock.

[@jimfitz3562]

love it!

[@jks5861]

Im 66 and my Bug is 66. Made in Dec 58 as a 59 model. I purchased it 12 yrs ago. Long story. Love it.

[@thomasteigen2793]

Touching story.

[@armandomuerzagimenez3190]

El espíritu humano no tiene límites, un coche que había surgido de sus cenizas y que era, como rezaba el manual de instrucciones en España, “un coche capaz de satisfacer todas las exigencias”. A finales de 2016 la empresa Volkswagen se convirtió en el mayor fabricante del mundo tras producir 10 millones de coches, exactamente 10.312.400 ud.; el patito feo, el humilde Escarabajo, había convertido a su empresa en cisne. Una historia apasionante.

[@mikedelaney5564]

I have watched this video 3 times in the last several months. Still enjoy seeing the 60 beetle bought back to life. The stories of the bug owners and what the little means to them is awesome.

[@keithad6485]

My first car bought in 1976 was a light blue 1960 beetle with 1100cc engine. Top speed 69 miles per hour. took the crash bars off one day and the top speed increased to 72 mph! Cost $80! registered. No gas gage, one sunvisor - for the driver. sometime later, my Mom told me when I was a toddler, my parents owned a light blue 1960 beetle! And that when travelling she would put me behind the rear seat and I would sleep 'like a baby'. Go figure.

[@jamalhadi5511]

❤. OK. YES. ❤

[@robertamoyaw8812]

What a sad story , I remember when we used to drive by the ocean back in the 60's n 70's in a bug 😮

[@billolsen4360]

They are fun to drive. I recall that in early Bugs, the oil filter was a long narrow metal screen.

[@TheAutisticCat]

Incredible

[@SimiNelsonFamily]

I’ve owned 15 VW’s over the past 45 years. My current cars are a ‘68 daily driver bug, and a ‘68 Karmann Ghia. They get thumbs up, and smiles wherever they go. Both are super clean and fun to drive.

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

This is a great documentary. I had a 1972 Super Beetle for five years, and I would have had it longer if the floor hadn't rotted away. It may still very well be the best car I've ever had. I'm now on my third Volkswagen, a 2012 Golf (the second was a 2000 Golf, my first new car) and I am just as into the water-cooled VWs as the air-cooled ones. I just adopted two kittens, and I call them my four-legged babies, but the 2012 Golf, like the Super Beetle and the 2000 Golf before it, is my four-WHEELED baby.

[@remedymcsheffrey3997]

Tomorrow im picking up a 1963 baja bug 1600cc im so excited just for the nostalgia as a kid watching my uncle build a number of them and sanpacers(meyers manx) he was also a successful race car driver in class 1 offroad buggies and his engine was a very powerful vw that scared the shit out of me when it revved up when he retired from racing he had it made road legal one of my best memories was when my father borrowed it and dropped me to school and on the way we detoured thru the local akarana golfcourse watching my father giving the finger to bemused golf enthusiasts shouting ya rich pricks! as we jumped over the banks tearing up the fairway then arriving at school my dad revving the guts out of it to attract all the kids who were now climbing on the fence to look at who was in the CRC sponsored buggy me taking my helmet off knowing Im king for a day as i watched my dad drifting out of the carpark who was that? just my old man🤭 growing up in New Zealand in the 1980s vws were so common that on roadtrips my dad invented a game called motorbikes and Vdubs where whoever was first to spot and call out vdub or motorbike would get a point also police were worth an extra point lol sadly not the same game these days. everyone worldwide has a story or memory involving this iconic car. Love that.

[@mikeroberts5646]

I,m aGerman living in the USA thanks for sharing this story,I,ve owned a few in my time but never had the spare money to restore,so I had to give up,If I ever have the Chance I would love to have a Type 34 or another 67 Bug

[@ochentaoku6627]

Most MY favouret carr VW BETTEL BUG

[@JohnMcPhersonStrutt]

Recently, i have got into Formula Vee and i'm constantly on the lookout for VW aircooled parts. I confess, i was somewhat envious of the footage of the Mexican taxis, stacked up awaiting crushing :0[

[@vintageslabman]

such a great video. Thanks so much for sharing this. wonderfully done and great stories in it. I just recently was able to get a 74 Super Beetle Convertible, I know they aren't as appreciated as the earlier models but, it is my first entry into the air cooled VWs and a convertible so I am super excited

[@chuckpeterson3262]

When I was a kid our brand new 64's seats were totally falling apart by 1966. Same thing happened with our 74 Bug. Bugs were better as refurbished used cars!!! The interior quality was TRAGIC.

[@saturupiah5940]

Mantap

[@lenorevanalstine1219]

we had a 1970 vw autostick for a while i still miss that little car it was old when we got it but it was a tough little machine and surprisingly comfortable

[@mungaloyd1]

Very nice video,oddly enuf I’ve had vws since 2010 after being a mustang guy all my life.mostly new diesels of vw,Audi ,Mercedes currently painting a vw bug mural on an old corrugated metal wall in my family room ..good people,wave even when you aren’t in your vw,they will know

[@BlackMandalaFims]

💯💯💯

[@kc0lif]

neighbor has a bug he's 6 foot six he never had a problem got in car & drove.

[@80fordmustang6]

My grandpa was big into beetles my dad also had a hand full grandpa passed last summer and I started looking for a beetle just got a 73 super last weekend and am excited

[@dannynunez5325]

❤

[@hertzair1186]

I had a 67 and then a 74 Beetle.

[@COSolar6419]

My family had a 1970 VW beetle. My first car was a 1972 VW Squareback.

[@DavidHuber63]

🙏🏼 Mom

[@chaedeukkim]

74 vw 1303s 1600cc built in Germany, Euro version in a country replete with Brazilian built vw 1300cc here!!

[@kevinmcmuhammad4841]

I don't understand this statement my friend, could you abbreviate please, thanks

[@JCBuys]

Only one tough problem in older bugs. The solex carburettor!

[@PurpleNinja-vn4hv]

I assume you mean the post 68’ carbs? Cause carb on my 59’ is the simplest fuel system I’ve ever worked on, excluding some (but not all) small engine carbs. Its got like 3 adjustments and takes 10 minutes to dial in, and about an hour to rebuild if you know what you’re doing

[@davidtuley5898]

Hell the carbs are so inexpensive now days. It’s cheaper than rebuilding them. Never stop me from owning my 68.

[@darrylmcleman6456]

Not the best car I had.It would go well on the snow but it did not steer well in the snow. CHEERS from Westcoast Canada!

[@WSBach]

Even Obi-Wan drives a Bug....😘

[@keithad6485]

In the early 1970s, when I was at school, the Beetle was known as Hitler's Revenge, Pregnant Pastie, Pregnant Rollerskate. The Mexican built Beetle was called Montezuma's Revenge.

[@CraigScottProductions]

Ok so Obi Wan drives a Beetle.

[@DavidHuber63]

That was a short story, Mom. 💜🙏🏼

[@jerrywitt7209]

my first car was a 1992 Volkswagen Bug

[@wsbill14224]

5 minutes into the video that old bug is worth a lot more than $500. I see no rot. You should sell it for 10% of the car's value when it's finished.

[@uwusmolbean]

Das Cochinile ❤

[@CF-yg5lt]

😳$500 ? Dude u robbed that poor lady.. shame on you.. wow.. 🤬

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

The original TDI diesel from the 1990s was an honest engine that passed emissions test legitimately, but in 2006, VW was forced to take it off the market in the U.S. because Detroit got the U.S. government to tighten federal emissions standards -not out of concern for the environment but out of fear of competition. Then, in 2009, VW introduced the new and improved "Clean Diesel" TDI, and I suppose we should have known something was wrong when VW claimed that it found a way to meet new U.S. emissions standards in three short years.

[@totalelectronics6734]

Freedom is NOT a desire. It is something inherent from within. Think of it as something we've been born with it; NOT acquired!

[@59vaughn]

Second time....

[@markusdecimus4732]

The company did not build the car. The car build the company.

[@Bobt98]

I had a split rear screen one as a teenager one day it broke down I sold it to a mate it ended up as a beach buggy

[@keithad6485]

Anyone interested in beetles and working on them, should consider buying the 'Idiot' book, been in print since the 1970s. Title - How to keep your volkswagen alive, the step by step procedure for the compleat idiot. By Muir.

[@rcaive0875]

I wasn't born until '74, so it's strange to me that there was once a period of time when Americans used the German pronunciation of "Volkswagen".

[@bayareanewman1566]

I think it was up until like 2003 Mexico still made, not the “new” one either. One like this with some minor modifications

[@SethWilliams11]

*no passenger seats were harmed during the crushings*

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Hmm. Ignoring the work of Hans Ledwinka of Tatra Motors's (Czechoslovakia) is a little bit remiss, I must say. The most crucial of the Beetle's design elements were hallmarks of Ledwinka's designs, first born out in the Tatra 87. The rear engine, air cooling, backbone construction, torsion bar suspension... all Ledwinka! Tatra initiated lawsuits against Ferdinand Porsche and VW prior to the war. It is reported that Porsche approached Adolf Hitler regarding this "problem". Upon hearing Porsche's concerns, Hitler supposedly responded by saying something along the lines of, "Don't worry, it's a small problem, it will go away". Weeks later, Hitler's forces invaded Czechoslovakia. Post war, Tatra was awarded one million Deutschmarks as compensation. As much as I'm a VW fan (I've owned several and travelled to the museum), there is no doubt that Porsche and Hitler were "inspired" by Ledwinka's designs.

[@LynxStarAuto]

32:17 dude needs to use soapy water mix, and suction cups. Will make his life A LOT easier.

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[@roylappin4491]

Diesel gate compared to “rolling coal” what B S!

[@kevinmcmuhammad4841]

What a great movie, very enjoyable, its just a pity that the EU are trying to bring in laws that if your old car engine or transmission is blown, or your car is needing welding the compleat car will have to be crushed, because of emissions and climate change, that's why here in Ireland 🇮🇪 we are trying to leave the EU the Economic Union, but here in Ireland we know extra population causes extra pollution, so we have 5 new Irish Nationalist Patriotic political partys who want border control to stop mass migration and extra Irish global warming, Ireland for the Irish 🇮🇪 Trump 2024 🇱🇷

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

I would happily buy an electric ID.3 hatchback, but Volkswagen of America has decided for me that I and other Americans can't have one. Now THAT'S losing our democracy!

[@LewisRedon]

My aunt had one and it drank petrol

[@ericklassen742]

I'm not sure why you call a Beatle a bug. It's like giving a person a name that is different from their own. It is disrespectful.

[@tapper701]

Aka Volkswagen Type 1 - "Beetle Bug" has the appearance of a Lady bug - beetle ... That simple, yet precise assessment as to why ...

[@terryjenner2156]

we drive Japanese cars without a though about the Batan death march.

[@terryjenner2156]

read the book Ghost Soldiers.

[@firecriss1392]

Beetle Wan Kenobi.

[@BeadsbyNicole]

Who’s the “organic” girl? “Organic, organic, organic, organic”? WTF?

[@joachimschiwy1483]

No horeshair,it was coconut fibers

[@wsbill14224]

And you should talk to your parents more. I could have told you the Nazis didn't develop the Volkswagen and very similar vehicles were made by other European companies previously. What we know as The Beetle is in fact an imitation of previous European cars.

[@champ2595]

The bug is a copy of Czech vehicles

[@briangode1381]

Our USA roads are mucho over crowed we have as all over this world mucho nuts locos behind the wheels oh how I would love to see a world without one drop of alcohol no more pipes cigars cigarettes smokers guns over powered automobiles where made properly so our laws could not be broken safer travels problems are volks buy this always businesses open to earn take your $$$$$$$$dinero selling volks their wants desires why donot volks wake up to our real world as it should be if crippled what good is your pockets or are they filled with millions dinero you can not use spend our health or else wise I donot but make sense here wake up please to the real world our average volks need to learn their wrongs causes well their own problems I have done it myself somewhat at times

[@briangode1381]

The biggest in our worlds insane society is so mucho things done not best nicer ways mucho things done that could should never have been in the first place ever we could just live mucho nicely without who cares the dinero volks get out of all this something’s matter more importantly enough already something’s we do are not wrong just wrong times places the world has so mucho things stuff we throw away going where I wonder enjoy yourselves if

[@zvast]

Stolen design of Czechoslovakian Tatra. Ordered by Hitler himself.

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