Saw Something Funny Today

P'cola Denali · February 13, 2009

I was in the VW dealer this morning and they had a flyer on the wall that read "Loyalty Pays" in big black letters. I thought that was funny coming from a company that was started by the Nazis.

ryan_hermanutz · February 13, 2009

Interesting information

Starting in 1931, Ferdinand Porsche and Zündapp developed the "Auto für Jedermann" (car for everyman). This was the first time the name "Volkswagen" was used. Porsche already preferred the flat-4 cylinder engine, but Zündapp used a watercooled 5-cylinder radial engine. In 1932, three prototypes were running.[2] All of those cars were lost during the war, the last in a bombing raid over Stuttgart in 1945.

In 1933, Adolf Hitler gave the order to Ferdinand Porsche to develop a "Volks-Wagen" (the name means "people's car" in German, in which it is pronounced [?folksvag?n]), a basic vehicle that should be capable of transporting two adults and three children at a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph). The People's Car would be made available to citizens of the Third Reich through a savings scheme at 990 Reichsmark, about the price of a small motorcycle at the time (an average income being around 32RM/week).[3]

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