Set to hit Indian roads in the very near future, the Volkswagen Beetle will bring with itself decades of history, and one of the cutest packages in the world. Sopan Sharma unwraps the new Beetle
We told you it was coming soon in the November issue of the ZigWheels magazine (vanishing off stands as you read this, mind you) and verifying the news, the legendary bug from Germany is set to make its Indian debut in December. Car lovers across the country should be rightfully delighted at the entry of what arguably is - and has been - the cutest automobile in the world. We thought this was as good a time as any to take a dip into the Beetle's glorious history, and explore the car in its current retro-chic form.
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The beginnings of the Beetle stretch way back to 1931, when a young Austro-Hungarian engineer by name of Ferdinand Porsche, when he developed a 'car for everybody'. Impressed by his treatment and understanding of real-world expectations from a daily transport vehicle, Adolf Hitler commissioned Porsche to make a 'Volks-wagen' - a people's car for Germany - a basic four-wheeler with a roof that would carry two adults and three children at contemporary freeway speeds - then pegged at about 100 km/h. And then there was the key rider - the car had to be sold at around the same price as that of a motorcycle.
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