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Bro i hate it when i'm fighting characters with like a shotgun or something , and I say I blow their head off and they are just like their head regenerates , even though even though they're like a normal person that couldn't do that im done with polybuzz

Volkswagen started in the early 1930s when Adolf Hitler wanted a car for the German public. For this, he hired Dr. Ferdinand Porsche. Mind you, Dr. Porsche had already been creating rear-engine vehicles at the time, so Hitler hired Porsche to make this car. And this is when he made the KdF-Wagen Type 1. KdF stands for Kraft durch Freude, and that means in English, "Strength through Joy." So, it was called the Strength through Joy car.

​Now, you could get Nazi stamps to get this KdF-Wagen. With these stamps, you had to save up 990 marks before you ever got the car. Thousands and thousands of German citizens poured their souls and hearts into saving for this. And that's when it all came crumbling down, because no citizen ever got their car; the factory shifted to making military vehicles like the Kübelwagen and the Schwimmwagen. Kübelwagen means "bucket car" in English, and Schwimmwagen means "swimming wagon" in English.

​After the war, the factories were bombed, but a guy by the name of Major Ivan Hirst saw the factory and had a vision for it. So that's when he got people in there, he rebuilt the factory, and he got German workers in there. Mind you, after the town of Wolfsburg was bombed, many citizens were homeless, had no food or shelter, and didn't have jobs. So Ivan Hirst, he gave them food, shelter, and jobs at the Volkswagen motor company.

​In 1949, a guy by the name of Ben Pon came into the Volkswagen factory and saw this thing going around called a Plattenwagen. The thing was for hauling big parts, and the driver's seat was in the back along with the rear engine. It was put on top of a Beetle chassis. It wasn't street-legal, though—I must mention that it was good for hauling parts around the factory, but not street-legal. So, when Ben Pon saw that thing, he went into his notepad and he drew the shape of the Plattenwagen, but with a box over it. And this is how the Type 2 Transporter was born.

​In the late 1950s and early 1960s, they kept iterating, leading to the 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. This one was kind of revolutionary because it had a sunroof on it, and this was actually the last year where the sunroof would be made out of fabric. The 1964, '65, and '66 models were all pretty normal; pretty much they just continued making the new Volkswagens.

​In 1967, this is where they upgraded to a 12-volt electrical system. So that meant much brighter headlights than they had back in the previous years.

​In 1968, Herbie the Love Bug came out. And this is important to mention, because before this, Americans saw Volkswagen as a Nazi car brand. But after Herbie came out, their shift went back to thinking, "Oh, cute car."

​In the 1970s, Volkswagen became popular in some big cities like San Francisco. In this era, they also released a new type of Beetle called the Super Beetle. But despite this, they were about to go bankrupt because of their old 1930s technology in their VW Beetles. So, for this, they hired an Italian designer, Giorgeto Giugiaro, to create the Volkswagen Golf—or Volkswagen Rabbit, as it's called in the US. The Volkswagen Golf had a slightly angular, folded-paper design, looking unique compared to past Volkswagens. The first year this came out in the US was around 1975.

​By the 1980s and 1990s, classic Beetles were only being produced in Mexico, because all the new Volkswagens in America were models like the Golf. But also in the 1990s, they released the Volkswagen New Beetle.

​Sadly, in 2003, the last 1960s-style classic bug rolled off the line in Puebla, Mexico, called the Volkswagen Beetle Última Edición. After that, they continued making the modern New Beetle models, and they did that until 2019, when they stopped making them altogether.

​Recently, though, they've been shifting toward electric vehicles, releasing cars like the ID.4 and the new ID.Buzz series. So yeah, that's always cool. Yeah, that's the history of Volkswagen for you.