vw beetle documentary Classic Wheels (3/3)

[@undergroundbasement]

My great uncle back in the early 1990's when I as in my teens once told me when I asked him how hard it was to work on a classic VW Bug as he had owned a few told me ..."son, a VW Bug has to be the most mechanically simplified automobile ever made". Ferdinand Porsche was an engineering genius. For a carbureted engine, they crank up in the coldest of frigid weather compared to other older style engine designs that have carburetors and distributor points. Even the gas mileage is good for a basic stock 1600 Duel Port engine with easy shifting and driving and getting up to 30 mpg isn't unheard of. Parts are still affordable too. They are dependable and are dirt cheap to get insurance on and are good for daily transportation. The lack of them not having a/c might bother some people but overall, they are still good cars and easy to maintain and keep going.

[@Seth_Stewart]

Well said. Sadly, very unappreciated cars

[@charliepc56]

America had a love affair with the VW Beatle that is still on going today.. Great story! Great video! Thanks!!

[@victorwwiivehicle822]

after WWII Beetle export to every where in the world.Today you still can see many 1950s Beetle run on the street.can not belive. very reliable, easy repair, easy to buy spare parts.

[@voicetube]

in about 1966 my Mom had a red Beetle And, as I recalled clearly, she had those big flower stickers all over it; this was the harbinger of her slightly later hippie phase where she ended up living in a nudist camp, etc. The car was her "flower child" And a couple years later… I was A "flower child" as well I guess you could say!

[@spacepope87]

I've owned a 1969 Beetle since 2009. No plans to ever get rid of it!

[@dick03773]

The beetle and rock and roll. Two things that will forever continue to be popular!

[@carmelfriza]

i am a vw lover . great job

[@fataldeepoutbreak7793]

Got a 73 square back! Family's had it for years.

[@bliglum]

Excellent upload!!! Thank you!

[@pablopicaro7649]

Porsche admitted "Well, sometimes I looked over his [Hans Ledwinka] shoulder and sometimes he looked over mine" while designing the Volkswagen Type 1.

[@Hans-k9j]

The Golf, the first of a long lijn of rustbuckets VW has produced.

[@juangodoy2436]

El mejor auto del mundo duela a quién le duela!

[@velobob4299]

Great! Thanks for that.

[@themooddisorders]

Thanks for the upload!

[@VwErik88]

great video :) thanks for uploading!

[@emmaflies199]

I've heard that it's actually fairly roomy in front, thanks to the lack of anything in the interior.

[@andrewsoupene1028]

Wish I had that 1 millionth beetle !

[@Carsfan58]

Le documentaire, en son entier, est magnifiquement monté. Dommage qu'il n'existe pas de version française ! La "Bettle"... ou "Coccinelle" était une invention fantastique (comme on semble ne plus pouvoir en faire) ! Imaginez, aujourd'hui, en 2012, une voiture qui ne demeure plus en panne de radiateur, pour cause de neige, etc. Elle passait partout, n'avait pourtant qu'un petit moteur et donc, avec tout ça, ne coûtait pas grand chose à l'entretien, Son moteur ? Alpha, Subaru, l'avaient repris !

[@hebneh]

VW found that the Beetle was a very hard act to follow. The Beetle's success in the US was impossible to predict. By US standards it was too small, too underpowered and too cramped - but for a substantial number of Americans, it had a huge appeal compared to the overly large and glitzy American cars of the late '50s and early '60s, and after it got established in those years, it kept going strong.

[@augustocamargo2431]

Just who have or had a beetle knows what is it.

[@DolleHengst]

11:38 That's not a Golf, it's a Polo

[@FranzKrammer4746]

KdF stood for Kraft durch Freude .... Power through Joy ...only Hitler could come up with a name like that...the VW Beetle was my first car ... and the Beatles were my favourite singing group....Is there a relation ... Kaefer is the German name also meaning beatle

[@c43939]

i love volkswagon!!

[@MashiachTheReal1]

Only the rear-engined Volkswagen are true VW! The "free"masonic direction of the Ford Motor Co. hated the oversteering VW-Beetle, the safest car on Earth so much, that it ordered Kurt Lotz to undermine it by starting a front-motored line with the K70! (Its motor is a copy of the motor of the Fiat 128!) It was Ford which started tenths of years ago the war against all rear-engined cars, because ten times safer than their front-motored understeering traps! Extremely suspicious is the fact that Heinrich Nordhoff died just after reaching the age of sixty-nine! (I'm 68 now) Did Lotz have something to do with it, because Nordhoff noticed that Lotz was a viper in the VW nest, turning all the good VW values upside-down? After eliminating him, as the biggest obstacle toward the elimination of the original Beetle (which blew up the Ford Model T record) the direction of the Ford Motor Co. set itself, at the same time, for the elimination of all rear-engined utilitarians (not "only "VW's!); this in the name of their (filthy!) profits: Ford Motor Co., found out, through secret statistics, that the more accidents there are, the more "cars" they sell, and if someone dies in their understeering traps, their reaction is simply: Do you remember what Preston Tucker said about the 'big three'? It's much worse, it's PREMEDITATED! The Whistle-Blower.

[@beetlejuic150]

Hahaha! He disappears under a curtain of smoke!

[@fiddlerpin]

That was Adolf Smokestack LOL

[@mikericky6140]

We had the corvair Ralph Nader stopped that. It was a damn good car. I had one it would go through mud, sand, anything. And they kept making the beetle???? Gas tank in the front same thing. If Nader had been a ball player or a vacuum salesman anything but what the bag of crap he turned out to be. Think of the tooling and molds that are around they could make the beetle now.....

[@billhershkowitz5759]

+Mike Ricky Yes, despite the bad press, the Corvair, especially the 1965-69 Late models, were the best handling cars available from Detroit. The styling was, of course, much more modern and attractive than the VW Bug. Unfortunately, the Corvair cost GM so much to develop and build (you couldn't put a Stovebolt or a 283 in it) they cheapened out on things that bit them later on, such as the sparse interiors and lack of important suspension hardware. But overall it was (and still is) a wonderful car to own and drive, especially the those Late models.

[@StayRed]

7:45 I FOUND WALDO

[@Xxx_Kukarachon_xxX]

A partir del 57 lo arruinaron

[@nasho3769]

Estás mal de la cabeza … y desubicado