Car Manufacturers of Germany: Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, Bugatti, Daimler AG, Audi, Trabant, Opel, Maybach, Mercedes- Benz, Espenlaub, Karmann (Paperback)

Car Manufacturers of Germany: Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, Bugatti, Daimler AG, Audi, Trabant, Opel, Maybach, Mercedes- Benz, Espenlaub, Karmann Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 73. Chapters: Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, Bugatti, Daimler AG, Audi, Trabant, Opel, Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Espenlaub, Karmann, NSU Motorenwerke, Gumpert, Bitter Cars, Wartburg, Ruf Automobile, Ford Germany, Fuldamobil, Artega Motors, Apal, Lotec, Markranst dter Automobilfabrik, Auto 5000. Excerpt: Volkswagen (abbreviated VW) is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and koda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania. Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is pronounced . Its current tagline or slogan is Das Auto (in English The Car). For vehicle time line tables, see: Volkswagen (timeline), Model of Porsche Type 12 (Z ndapp), Museum of Industrial Culture, NurnbergVolkswagen was originally founded in 1937 by the Nazi trade union, the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront). In the early 1930s German auto industry was still largely composed of luxury models, and the average German rarely could afford anything more than a motorcycle. Seeking a potential new market, some car makers began independent "peoples' car" projects - Mercedes' 170H, Adler's AutoBahn, Steyr 55, Hanomag 1,3L, among others. The trend was not new, as B la Bar nyi is credited with having conceived the basic design in the middle 1920s. Josef Ganz developed the Standard Superior (going as far as advertising it as the "German Volkswagen"). Also, in Czechoslovakia, the Hans Ledwinka's penned Tatra T77, a very popular car amongst the German elite, was becoming smaller and more affordable at each revision. In 1933, with many of the above projects still in development or early stages of production, Adolf Hitler declared his intentions for a state-sponsored "Volkswagen" program. Hitler required a basic vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children ...

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