Desire Vintage: a site devoted to beautiful and archetypal objects of our culture

In 1938, Adolf Hitler said he ‘wanted this kind of car for my highways’. The Beetle's streamlined body and simple mechanics including a rear-mounted 4-cylinder, air-cooled engine may have been the only redeeming product of the Third Reich. The design has had staying power for fans old and new.

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