How much did a 1950 VW Beetle cost?

The Beetle had arrived. The first 1950 cars came with a split rear-window that is immediately recognizeable among VW fans. Original price for a standard car was $1280 (just under $16K today), although most buyers coughed up the extra $200 for the chrome and creature comforts of the Deluxe model.

When did Volkswagen make a beetle?

Once again, Volkswagen messes with the Beetle's rear window, enlarging the opening for 1958. A year earlier, the company had equipped the little car with tubeless tires for the first time. The 1950s and 1960s see Volkswagen expand its clever, often self-deprecating advertising.

When was the first Volkswagen made?

But the little VW's history stretches all the way back to 1934, when Ferdinand Porsche proposed his design for a "people's car," the Volkswagen, to Adolf Hitler. The first batch of finalized cars were birthed in 1938, only to see the gleaming new factory built to assemble them pulled into Germany's war effort and later bombed to near oblivion.