Volkswagen Beetle

type

 * coupe

competition

 * touring car

series

 * Trans Am

trivia

 * Originally created by Ferdinand Porsche for German dictator Adolf Hitler as a car that everyone could afford, a "people's car". Ironically, the car became phenomenal worldwide.
 * Due to its low price, high gas mileage, and great practicality, the car was popular with the hippies of the sixties and seventies.
 * Its small size made it popular in the US due to the large amount of big cars causing parking problems, especially in college towns.
 * Famously used in the Disney Herbie film franchise featuring one with a mind of its own.
 * Volkswagen revived the model in 1997. The New Beetle was criticized for not being barebones, being larger, being front-engined, not having the greatest fuel economy, and only looking vaguely like the original. The "New" was kept for several years despite not being so new anymore. Eventually the word was dropped. Volkswagen is dropping the model for 2019.
 * New Beetles competed in spec racing
 * The Love Bug, the first in the film series, was partially filmed at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California.
 * New Beetles were so popular they even had their own video game and merchandise