
The Volkswagen Beetle, also known as the Volkswagen Type 1, was an economy car produced by the German car manufacture Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003. It used an air cooled rear engined rear wheel drive.
In the 1950s, it was more comfortable and powerful than most European small cars, having been designed for sustained high speed on the Autobahn, and ultimately became the longest-running and most-produced automobile of a single design. It remained a top seller in the US, even as rear-wheel drive conventional subcompacts were refined, and eventually replaced by front-wheel drive models.