Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 94. Chapters: Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, Bugatti, Daimler AG, Audi, Volkswagen Group, Opel, MAN SE, Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, Ford of Europe, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Volkswagen Trucks and Buses, Loremo, Gumpert, Wiesmann, Veritas, Bitter Cars, Hanomag, Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles, Ruf Automobile, MAN Truck & Bus, Ford Germany, Framo, Isdera, Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau, Artega Motors, Multicar, Barkas, Apal, Melkus, Goliath, Jetcar, Drogmoller, HQM Sachsenring GmbH, Markranstadter Automobilfabrik, Yes! Roadster, Neumeyer, Contrac Cobus, Pegasus Automobile. 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 (Zundapp), 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 Bela Barenyi 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...