VOLKSWAGEN Guide E-Book

Bill Carroll

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Savine
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

“At any price, Herr Dr. Porsche. At any price below 1000 marks ($250),” laughed Hitler as he ordered the inauguration of the Volkswagen project in the late summer of 1933.The scene was Berlin’s Hotel Kaiserhof where Hitler, meeting with Germany’s most famous automotive engineer, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, was outlining plans for a “people’s car.” Hitler wanted, for the German worker, a car that would travel the autobahns, at reasonably high speed, provide gasoline mileage in the 30 to 35 miles per gallon class and be simply constructed and inexpensive to repair. Also, it had to cost less than any other car on the European market.

Leseprobe

VOLKSWAGEN

Guide

Service and Secrets of the World’ Most Talked-About Small Car

by BILL CARROLL

Volkswagen's General Manager, Dr. Ing. Heinz Nordhoff: “Success has nothing to do with miracles, only with work, thoughtfulness and knowledge.”

New digital edition of:

VOLKSWAGEN Guide

by Bill Carroll

© 1960 by Sports Car Press

Copyright © 2016 - Edizioni Savine

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ISBN 978-88-96365-99-1

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CONTENTS

VOLKSWAGEN Guide

1. Hitler Orders a Peoples Car

The First Three VW’s

Enter the Strength-Through-Joy Boys

Wolfsburg Is Born

The Big Day

The K.D.F. Goes to War

The Military Model

An Automatic Transmission

How One Design Worked

2. The Great Volkswagen Lottery

Birth of a Salesman

An Ingenious Sales Plan

3. Just 713 Passenger Cars in 1945

The British Set Up Shop

First British Tests

An Interesting Comparison

Wolfsburg Gets Rolling

Dr. Nordhoff Takes Over

GI Meets VW

Volkswagen Production

Volkswagens Sold in the United States

4. Production Today