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Where did the name VW bug come from?

Updated: 9/16/2023
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Hitler believed that we should look to nature for aerodynamics, so he believed a car shaped like a beetle would have good aerodynamics. So Hitler decided to hire Ferdinand Porsche to build a car that looked like a beetle. The prototype was completed in 1935, although it did not look a lot like what we all know as a Beetle. They named the car Ferdinand Porsche designed a Käfer, which is German for Beetle.

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