The original VW Beetle is a design icon and with over 21 million sold, the best-selling car of all time. Hardly surprising then, that Volkswagen used the same air-cooled, rear-engined set-up as the basis for a model line-up that turned the company into one of the world s largest motoring manufacturers. The rugged, reliable and easy to work on underpinnings of the Beetle made their way into a raft of similarly iconic vehicles, from the much-loved Type 2, that spawned the Campervan market of today to arguably one of the most beautiful cars of all time, the Karmann Ghia. This special publication showcases the best of VW s golden age with fabulous examples of each Type of air-cooled VW and details the history of Volkswagen and how these iconic cars came about.
