Much of the Beetle's design was inspired by the advanced Czech Tatra cars. You can attribute most credit to chief engineer Hans Ledwinka
Sir Alec Issigonis designed the mini and beetle
You do not need the plastic cover on the undercarriage of the Beetle necessarily. It is designed to protect the undercarriage from road debris but it is not necessary to the function of the car.
They call the car a beetle because of its shape. It is shaped like a large beetle
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.
During his time in power, Hitler did not personally create a car, but he supported the development of the Volkswagen Beetle, which was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.
The Volkswagen "Beetle".
The VW Super Beetle is one of the rarest
The Volkswagen "Beetle" was manufactured from 1938 to 2003.
The first Volkswagen was nicknamed the "beetle" or the "bug" because it's shaped a lot like an insect. Over 40 million have been made since 1938.
Ferdinand Piech Porsche designed the Volkswagen beetle.Ferdinand Porsche discovered volkswagen beetle
The beetle is a fuel efficient car. 25 in the city and 32 on the highway makes is fuel efficient.
A beetle is any of a group of species of insect in the family Coleoptera, which have piercing mouth parts which are designed to suck things.