Record Breaker
Classic Car Buyer|February 28, 2018

The most-produced car model ever ended production in its homeland 40 years ago. We consider where the other 10 million VW Beetles came from.

Paul Wager
Record Breaker

There’s much talk in the VW scene of exactly when the Beetle entered production, but the general consensus is that it was 80 years ago in 1938; the year Professor Porsche’s crude first prototypes were judged to have been sufficiently developed to enter production.

What’s often overlooked, especially by those outside the air-cooled VW scene, is that although the Volkswagen Type 1 (as the Beetle was more properly known) would go on to be the most-produced single model in history, a significant part of this would be produced not by the VW group’s Wolfsburg parent plant in Germany but by plants scattered around the globe – most notably in South America.

Indeed, the year 2018 also marks another significant anniversary for the Beetle, since on January 19, 1978, the final German-produced example rolled off the line in VW’s Emden plant. The end of Wolfsburg production had come sooner on February 17, 1972, when the 11,916,519th car had left the line.

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