Porsche and his team of engineers and designers set to work on the new project, and the rest as they say is history. World War II came and went, leaving a large part of Germany dilapidated, but thankfully for Volkswagen the occupying allies took little interest in dismantling the Beetle plant at Wolfsburg. Thanks to the efforts of a few kind-hearted military personnel, production first continued and then thrived - within ten years, more than 1 millions Beetles had rolled out of the plant for public consumption. The Beetle deserved the success too, given that it outperformed contemporary compact European cars like the Citroen 2CV and the Morris Minor in almost all respects, be it on-road performance, maintenance or reliability.
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