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Histoire complète des Volkswagen classiques

La Volkswagen Coccinelle fait partie de ces rares modèles de légende qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'automobile. Son incroyable carrière en fait aussi la voiture qui est restée le plus longtemps en production, de ses humbles débuts de "voiture du peuple" en Allemagne à la fin des années 1930 jusqu'à 2002 et l'arrêt définitif de sa fabrication au Mexique.

Au total, plus de 23 millions d'exemplaires de Coccinelle sont sortis des chaînes de montage dans plusieurs pays, sans compter les autres modèles mythiques de Volkswagen à refroidissement par air, dont les fameux Combi, Minibus et Karmann-Ghia.

Ce sont tous ces modèles et quelques autres qui sont décrits en détail dans "Histoire complète des Volkswagen classiques", véritable ouvrage de référence pour tout connaître de ces voitures de collection devenues des icônes du XX° siècle.

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The Complete Book of Classic Volkswagens : Beetles, Microbuses, Things, Karmann Ghias, and More

The classic air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is regarded as one of the most important and well-engineered vehicles of the twentieth century. It was the most popular imported car in America in the 1960s, and before that it enjoyed a humble beginning as "the people's car" in its native Germany.
In its heyday, the rounded Beetle was produced at a rate of more than one million per year. Today, with more than 23 million cars built, the Beetle holds the record as the most-produced passenger car of all time. But the Beetle is only one part of The Complete Book of Classic Volkswagens.

This book encompasses the evolution of the popular Beetle as well as other variations of Volkswagen's air-cooled cars, vans, and trucks. Thoroughly illustrated, this is an invaluable reference to Volkswagen's collectible and iconic cars.
The rest - from Type 2 vans, pick-ups, and campers to the Type 113 "Super Beetle" - is included here. If you're the owner of a Volkswagen or if you just love their iconic look and you're interested in their evolution, this book deserves a place on your bookshelf.

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Volkswagen - From Nazi People's Car to New Beetle (Hitler's Chariots)

The exciting, fascinating saga of the creation of the world's most popular car, the famed Volkswagen Beetle, under the Nazi regime of German dictator Adolf Hitler, who played a pivotal role in its design, construction, and marketing during 1933-38.
It is also the story of the two Drs. Porsches who created it - Ferdinand, Sr., and his son, Ferry - as well as Dr. Robert Ley's German Labor Front that built it, and Adolf Huhnlein's Nazi Motor Corps that helped popularize driving and made motoring a reality in the Third Reich.

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The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen

The astonishing biography of Josef Ganz, a Jewish designer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maikäfer (German for May bug).
The Nazis not only "took" the concept of Ganz's family car - their production model even ended up bearing the same nickname. The Beetle incorporated many of the features of Ganz's original Maikäfer, yet until recently Ganz received no recognition for his pioneering work.

The Nazis did all they could to keep the Jewish godfather of the German compact car out of the history books. Now Paul Schilperoord sets the record straight. In a biography that reads like a spy thriller, he tells how Ganz was imprisoned by the Gestapo, until an influential friend with connections to Göring helped secure his release.
Soon afterwards he was forced to flee Germany while Porsche created the Volkswagen for Hitler using many of his groundbreaking ideas. Ganz was hunted by the Nazis even beyond Germany's borders and narrowly escaped assassination.

After the war Ganz moved to Australia, where he died in 1967. This biography is a great read for anyone interested in World War II, Jewish history, the evolution of car design or simply the life stories of extraordinary individuals.

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Volkswagen - The Air-Cooled Era in Colour

The incredibly popular sixties design classics, with their enduring appeal, the original air-cooled Volkswagen cars and Transporters are fully explored in this fascinating book.
A unique picture-led chronicle of the Volkswagen story through the fifties and sixties, this book makes extensive use of the artwork from contemporary promotional literature for a real 'retro' feel. A must have for motoring enthusiasts and VW devotees alike.

Features
- Re-lives the spirit of the fifties and sixties
- Includes rarely seen and valuable archive material
- Includes substantial sections covering the VW of the moment - the Transporter
- Unique format and retro style of presentation
- Includes the VW 1500/1600 models which are rarely covered in print
- An interesting text that questions long held opinions
- A collectable treasure in its own right for all VW enthusiasts.

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Volkswagen Cars 1948-1968

The story of the VW Beetle along with other air cooled variants. Using an excellent mix of period and modern pictures by acknowledged VW photographer Ken Cservenka, Richard Copping skilfully traces the history of the German 'people's car' from 1948 to 1968.

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VW Advertising - The Art of Advertising the Air-Cooled Volkswagen

From the '50s to the '70s Volkswagen's publicity and advertising material was among the very best issued by any motor manufacturer. Following the Beetle's launch brochures in the late 1930s, the 1950s saw extraordinarily strong artwork images from the brush of Bernd Reuters and other artists, depicting Saloon, Cabriolet and Transporter in such a way as to suggest more streamlined, spacious and powerful VWs than the reality.

In the '60s the American advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach took over, combining stark photography with sharp, witty text and endowing the Beetle with a cult status that took production to over a million for the first time, but VW's new Type 3 and Type 4 models were failing to impress the public, and only the arrival of the Golf saved the day.

Author Richard Copping has a vast collection of VW material and in this book he provides a selection of some 400 of the most striking or interesting images used by the company to sell us its products, taking in every model and variant.
The accompanying text guides us through the changing styles of the publicity material as well as through the range of vehicles and thus through the story of Volkswagen in the period.

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VW Personenwagen mit Heckmotor und Luftkühlung 1938-2003 (Typenkompass)

Ce livre de référence présente tous les modèles refroidis par air, produits par Volkswagen entre 1938 et 1985.

Pages du livre "VW Personenwagen mit Heckmotor und Luftkühlung 1938-2003"

Présente les VW KdF, Coccinelle, Kübelwagen, Schwimmwagen, les 1500 et 1600 (Typ 3), Karmann-Ghia, 411/412 et des autres modèles.
Chaque type est présenté à l'aide d'une photo, d'une description historique et d'une fiche technique.

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Das grosse VW-Cabrio-Buch - Käfer, Karmann-Ghia, Golf I, Golf III, Exoten (Reprint)

Open Volkswagens! They were and are more popular than all other convertibles, were built more often and have made more history and stories than anything else that moves "topless" on four wheels.
The original convertible is definitely the open Beetle in its various versions. It and its brother, the Karmann-Ghia convertible, are particularly associated with concepts such as youth, student days, freedom and leisure.
The successor series, the Golf convertible, catapulted the topic of open Volkswagens into the modern era and was therefore laughed at for a long time - but the success of the Golf proved the Wolfsburg-based company right.

The big VW convertible book tells the story of all open VWs, from the Beetle to the Karmann Ghia to the Golf I and the Golf III. It presents all the exotics, studies and experiments that have been carried out on the various VW convertibles.
With all the technical data, many rare pictures and detailed descriptions. Here you can find out everything you want to know about these cars - in a competent and entertaining way.

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Die klassischen Volkswagen: von Wolfsburg in die Welt

The classic Volkswagens are the air-cooled cars that developed from the humble beginnings of the first "Beetle" (VW Type 1) and became the epitome of the German economic miracle, especially during the 1950s and 1960s. Whole vehicle classes such as panel vans and minibuses, convertibles and coupes, notchbacks, hatchbacks and station wagons were derived from the original concept.
The classic Volkswagens conquered not only Germany and Europe, but the whole world and especially North America, where the "Beetle" or "Bug" blossomed into the most popular import vehicle.

"Die klassischen Volkswagen" traces this success story. Lavishly illustrated, the book by the American classic car expert John Gunnell shows how the air-cooled Volkswagen conquered the world from Wolfsburg and how the Americans took the initially ridiculed, spartan exotic cars to their hearts.
The period between the Second World War and the first oil crisis is brought back to life in the motor press and advertising materials. All model years have their place here.

German edition of the book "The Complete Book of Classic Volkswagens".

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Traumauto Volkswagen - Wie Käfer, Golf und Bulli in die DDR kamen

À la fin des années 1970, la VW Golf était officiellement disponible en faible quantité en RDA, ce qui la rendait très recherchée, mais seuls quelques-uns pouvaient en obtenir une. Dans les années suivantes, d'autres modèles cultes comme la Coccinelle et le T1 Bulli conquirent l'Allemagne de l'Est - mais à quel prix ?

Les voitures Volkswagen étaient considérées comme des voitures de rêve dans l'État socialiste des travailleurs et paysans. Ce n'est qu'après la réunification que les moteurs modernes à quatre temps remplacèrent les moteurs deux-temps gourmands des Trabant et Wartburg.

Dans ce livre, Eberhard Kittler, spécialiste de la RDA et de VW, explore l'histoire de cette relation unique. De nombreux documents inédits et des photos exclusives illustrent le développement et l'influence des modèles Volkswagen en Allemagne de l'Est.

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Volkswagen - Personenwagen seit 1973 (Typenkompass)

Ce livre de référence présente chronologiquement toutes les voitures Volkswagen fabriqués depuis 1973.

Pages du livre "Volkswagen - Personenwagen seit 1973"

Présente les Golf, Polo, Passat, Scirocco, Phaeton et Beetle aini que des autres modèles VW. Chaque type est présenté à l'aide d'une photo, d'une description historique et d'une fiche technique.

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Volkswagen - Tradition mit Zukunft

Volkswagen a fait les gros titres avant même sa création : projet préféré d'Hitler, période difficile après la guerre et ascension rapide pendant les années du miracle économique.

Même les crises graves ont été utilisées par l'entreprise pour se réinventer. Le scandale du diesel et les lourdes amendes n'empêcheront pas VW de façonner la mobilité du futur.

Dans ce livre, Joachim Kuch présente une chronique actuelle et complète de tous les modèles qui ont marqué la circulation - de la Coccinelle, Golf et Tiguan au Passat et au Bulli.

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