In the 1930s, there was a need for economical automobiles that could be easily accessible to all German workers, at the same time, there was someone who was building an economical automobile that looked like a car and could easily accommodate a family and it was Ferdinand Porsche. He was already making small rear-engined cars that actually had the shape of a beetle. At that time, only the wealthy could afford to own a car in Germany. No other automaker was interested in making a low-cost car. Porsche was the only company designing small, low-cost cars, but no one was interested in making such a car. Adolf Hitler was very interested in cars, he wanted the car to hold four people and for the car to be cooled by oil and not water. It should travel at 100 km/h (maximum) and consume 7 liters of petrol per 100 km. Since no other company was interested in producing such a low-cost car, Hitler founded a new government-run automobile company, the name of his first car was "KdF-Wagen", meaning strength through joy. When World War II began the factory closed but built jeeps for the army
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