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Engineer Ferdinand Porsche is associated with some of the greatest designs in automotive history, including Auto-Union’s formidable 16-cylinder race cars and, of course, the high-performance machines that bear his name. Yet from an early age he envisioned a simple, basic car that even factory workers could afford. This was slightly less than revolutionary in an era when cars were an expensive commodity and many intended to keep them that way.

Adolf Hitler shared Porsche’s vision of a small car and gave him the means to design one. The early design brief called for a 650kg four-seater model capable of maintaining 62mph with a one-liter engine rated at approximately 26hp. It needed to be air-cooled to keep running in Germany’s colder regions. Note: early prototype pictured.

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