Ticket to ride
in 1933, Adolf Hitler met with the car baron Ferdinand Porsche to discuss the idea of a car that could carry 5 people, cruise up to 40 km an hour, return around 12 km a litre, and cost only 1,000 Reich Marks. Thus was the origin of the Volkswagen car. In German, the moniker means people's car.
But that was not what it was called to begin with. Soon after his company designed the car as per Hitler's specifications, Porsche developed differences with the German dictator. Never a supporter of Nazism, the automobile baron could not bear the German government naming the car kdf wagen