Even though the Volkswagen Beetle came fourth in the 1999 Car of the Century competition after the Ford Model T, the Mini, and the Citroën DS, the original Bug is one of the most influential automobiles in history. With 21,529,464 units built between 1938 and 2003 – 15,444,858 of which were produced in Germany – it was one of the most popular vehicles in the previous century. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that the Beetle mania is still pretty much alive and takes different forms all around the world.
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