Comme vous le savez tous la création de la marque vw vient du très funeste tiran adolf hitler...
Mon père ne porte pas vw dans son coeur à cause de cela...
J aurais aimé avoir votre avis sur la question, qu'en pensez vous?
C'est extrement réducteur... L'histoire de VW a commencé bien avant Hitler...
"Talk about a ”Volkswagen“ began in Germany in 1904.
Engineers were already of the opinion that the future of the
automobile industry lay in the mass production of inexpensive
small cars. Pioneering developments in America, where
a mass market for automobiles was gradually developing,
were observed with astonishment. Nevertheless, the debate
concerning a ”people‘s car“ provoked by the American
model was accompanied by sceptical undertones because
passenger cars were then seen wholly as highly taxed luxury
items. In addition, the troublesome technical aspects of
the current automobiles that required much maintenance
spoke against the popularization of the automobile.
The first ”people’s cars“ were produced on the other side
of the Atlantic starting in 1908, where mass purchasing
power and the means of production made the motorization
of American society possible. The Ford Motor Company,
founded by Henry Ford, produced the Model-T on an assembly
line, which was soon viewed by European manufacturers
as the prototype of rationalized mass production.
By the time the last one was built in 1927, 15,007,033 ”Tin
Lizzys“ had left the Ford plant in Detroit. Through Henry
Ford‘s inf luence, the idea of a Volkswagen became the
leitmotif of automotive publications during the Weimar
Republic, inspiring the fantasy of designers. Late fame
was gained by the 18-year old Hungarian technology student
Béla Barény, who submitted a ”Fahrgestell-Entwurf für
einen Volkswagen“ (chassis design for a Volkswagen) in
1925 and – along with August Horch, Ettore Bugatti,
Ferdinand Porsche and Heinrich Nordhoff – came to be
included in the ”Automotive Hall of Fame“. Although the
motorcycle was the front-runner in the motorization of
Germany during the 1920s, automobile manufacturers
were making obvious advances. Because of high vehicle
taxes and fuel prices, they pushed forward with the development
of small engined, economically feasible vehicles.
The Volkswagen was the main attraction of the international
automobile show in Berlin in the early 1930s, not as
a brand name, but as a classification. BMW, Mercedes,
Opel, Ford, Adler and Hanomag, all presented cheap-torun
models suitable for mass production in 1934 that were
marketed to the public as Volkswagens. The technical
requirements were already available and the Volkswagen
was on everybody‘s mind by the time the Nazi dictatorship
came to power."
Voir
http://www.vw-antares.net/content/view/97/2/ 
