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What is Classics and 21st Century Cars All About

As a Petrol head myself I've always loved cars in general but what I'm most passionate about would definitely be classics..

Most people don't realise the difference between a classic and an older car that still has that race car engine.

A classic car commonly has a rich history behind and keeps it's value if not increases its value over a number of years..
If I had a Mercedes Benz SL300 from a junk yard and built it up from scratch it would still be worth millions in my books..
However if it would be a new Mercedes C Class I'd probably leave it lying there. Well, that's just my way of differentiating between the two..

What you'd find on this blog would be Classics and the story behind it. As well as the new reformed version of it. Sometimes the two would be compared and I'll let you decide which one is better!

Thursday, 27 February 2014

The Beetles

The cutest classic in the world.. the VW Beetle Type 1 Volkswagen or some say the bug.Because of its rich history in the 80's - the era of the hipsters, I could picture it with flowers painted on it and eye lashes on the lights.


VW Beetle

So the big question is.. "What makes a Beetle different from other classics that it is still on the most wanted list after all these years..?"

Imagine a car with so much excitement from the late 1930's until now!
The demand for making the old style Beetle went on 'til 2003. I think we have a record. Also the reformed version of the VW Beetle stays true to the old school style.
Most Classics have some big History behind it or it is first of its kind but this one here is one of a kind.
The car with the biggest personality.

The initial plan for this car was to make cheap and simple. And now.. 70 years later people of a certain culture looks at it as if it were gold, myself included. It's a huge part of the hipster culture and seems like it will always be.

Believe it or not the rain maker [who it was formulated by] was Adolf Hitler himself. He created something so sweet looking and harmless. Now there's your piece of History right there. The light bulb moment [idea] came about back in 1934 when Hitler contacted Porche to design and build his car to his expectations then, four years later, the Bug was born.

The VW Beetle is one of the first rear-engined cars with over 21 million manufactured in an air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform, worldwide.. beat that!


Road Trip With VW Beetle

As we all know.. yes I'm talking to the petrol heads out there... Hitler was the creator of the autobahn, the road to heaven with no speed limit. Well, I got another thing to say.. this little one right here was designed to sustaining high speed on the autobahn. Which was one of Hitlers request for the VW Beetle. That ass is powerful [If you're having a blonde moment the engines in the ass of the car remember?].



The Autobahn



The Beetle is also seen as something as a memory of the Hippie culture which lives on today.
to learn more about the relation to the 70's Hippie culture click here.

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