Following is a transcript of the video. Cate Culp: So today, we're going to be looking at Paisley, it's a 1960 Euro beetle and this car was built for our charity beetle promotion. And this car was ...
There's likely to be no shortage of VW Beetle owners who can relate to this new kit from Lego. It's a box with 1,626 parts in it that one day, after hours of work, will resemble a classic Bug.
By the mid 1960s the Beetle was already part of the American landscape, and VW's reach was not purely coastal. It also helped that the similarly dated Type 2 Bus was growing in popularity.
In recent years its production moved away from Europe to Mexico, closer to its key US market Volkswagen ... popular with the 1960s counter-culture types who extolled the Beetle's small, practical ...
Volkswagen will stop making its iconic Beetle after nearly seven decades on ... Their increasing popularity in the US in the 1960s prompted Volkswagen to build its first manufacturing plant ...