10 Fun Facts about Volkswagen, Part 2 (#6-10)
For Volkswagen Fun Facts Part 1 (#1-5) Click here
Here at WP Motors, were uniquely equipped to assess the popularity, value-for-money, and quality of different brands of car – our most popular second-hand cars to date are actually from the same manufacturer: Volkswagen! In celebration of the Volkswagen Polo and Volkswagen Vivo, our top sellers, we bring you:
6. Flash! Aha!
As a Volkswagen Group Subsidiary, Bugatti designed and engineered what was for a long time the fastest car on Earth: The Bugatti Veyron (and Bugatti Veyron SS). Fascinatingly this cars production costs far exceed its recommended retail selling price, meaning the Volkswagen Group actually made a loss on every Veyron sold.
7. Racing stripes
Did you know that on February 23rd, 2002 a Volkswagen W12 raced round the Nardò Ring race track (near the Italian city of the same name) for 24hours – covering nearly 8000km, averaging 322.891km/h, and breaking 12 world speed records in the process?
8. Big, bold, and beautiful
Did you know that the Volkswagen brand is involved in truck racing? Did you even know that truck racing is a thing? Well it is, and the VW trucks reign supreme! Why do they race trucks you may ask? Well, VW is one of the largest truck manufacturers in South America, entering the Brazilian Formula Truck championship may well have been a very strategic marketing move!
9. Puzzled
Why are their Volkswagens on the road with mixed up body panels you ask? Well, these special edition Harlequin VW Polos were released in 1995 in Europe. In 1996, they released the same Harlequin edition in Golf III, but this time in the USA and Canada. It is one of the rarest limited edition VW vehicles to ever be released! Interesting to note is that not all the Harlequin cars have identical colour combinations this is because single colour cars were produced first and the body panels mixed-and-matched afterward.
10. Movie-star level famous
Did you know that there is an iconic series of films featuring an anthropomorphized VW beetle named Herbie? Since the Herbie films, the Herbie paint job (white with the number 53) has become very popular and has been replicated on VW bugs around the world.
*Trivia originally compiled on Hubpages by user WerewolfCustoms1.
