The american jeep vs the german aircooled Volkswagen two cars bred from war now to serve the public.
>>65272375Bug was civilian first, retard.Just one of the Fuhrers' many GOATs. Arguable the GOAT piece of industrial design.Model-T might have had more impact, but it was nearly identical to an almost "standard" design of the time. Bug was considered radical and futuristic, and wouldn't have left the drawing board without Hitler's orders.He invented the autobahn, Bug and blitz, but AFAIK was never a "driver", only seen on a bike.
>>65272883Bug was a reworked design of tatra v570,Porsche and Ledwinka (main guy in charge of v570) were pals pre war and swapped ideasV570 was supposed to be peoples car but it seemed to be too advanced and the aerodynamic research went to tatra 77When beetle was unveiled tatra sued for patent infringment nazi party did what it could to stop the lawsuit and then they invaded in 38Post ww2 lawsuit was restarted and vw settled and paid tatra 1 million of deutsche marks (512k euros) in 1965 I thinkOriginal peoples car was 1932 fiat toppolino (post war fiat 600 and 500 were made as succesors to it)Fiat topolino mogged beetle,400kg and 85-95 kph and was able to fit a v8 which led to it becoming a great base for early dragstersHitler did most in terms of animals rights>>65272375Jeep mogs and it should be kubelwagen onlyBeetle was good only as a squad car or in winter
>>65272883The Bug was pushed as a scam to fleece the German people and fund militarization. People made monthly payments believing their car would be delivered after the final payment, no cars were delivered.
>>65273737Anglos fault
>>65273747If France had their way I doubt Germany would exist, you should thank Americans that Germany wasnt dissolved in 1918
>>65273267Porsche plagiarized some cooling system designs from Tatra (that's what he was sued for later), but the rest was his own, just a similar concept. Many were working on a bug-like car back then (air cooled engine, all steel, aerodynamic, independent suspension), but the issue was always the financial risk of building a new, large factory to make cheap cars with small margins>Tatra solved the issue by abandoning the people's car and making luxury cars. >Citroen had to wait out WW2 >Mercedes couldn't make their rear engined car cheap enough>Ganz's Standard Superior never really achieved mass productionPorsche designed several cars for companies like NSU. None of them could raise the funds though, eventually he pitched it to Hitler and promised it could be used by the military as well
>>65272375For fuck's sake it's "Kübel", how fucking hard can it be? At least go "Kubel" if you don't speak German, but how the fuck can you come up with "Kubül"?
>>65273737Post war the British Army found a way for the locals to do something other than eating each other. VW actually started to make cars for people.Pic - wind in the hair motoring.
Mah truuk.
