its all about driving skill; being a 'careful driver' is not enough for an inexperienced driver behind the wheel of a rear-engine micro car that is being driven daily in traffic (i.e. with idiots driving big cars). one simply can't be careful for other motorists...the newer driver should have a bit more power and a lot more built-in safety in his or her ride. spend some money to protect your bod.
I have a 67 bug and I wouldn't drive anything else ever in my life I'm a single mom with two boys it's very cheap maintenance and in this economy twenty bucks gives me a full tank I totaly recommend :)
So are these cars safe? I have been looking into buying one of these for a while (because they are very affordable and they have lots of charm) but i would be using it for everyday use (not just here and there)-- I would also be using it to drive home from college (2-4 times per school year) next year which is about a 400 mile trip one way-- Would you say this is a safe car for a young person who is a careful driver and do these cars have seat belts?
@sewphie They're not as safe as new cars, by any means (ABS, air bags, crumple zones, etc.) For the time they were good. Some even have 3-point seat belts (shoulder strap), the type 3's have this. Padded dashes are standard in the later cars, like the 70's super beetle.
But any 30-40 year old car will require regular maintenance & repair. If you want a cheap, reliable car, get something like a 6-year Nissan Sentra, which would have similar gas costs and cost about the same upfront.
I was driving my beetle around one day when I noticed a man on the side of the road, I asked him if he was okay and we got chatting. It turns out he was an old desert rat. Aafter the war he returned to Africa to teach children to read. He said that he used VW beetles and camper vans to get around because they were so reliable, didn't overheat and didn't require water, which was obviously scarse. He said they were "bomb-proof" which is quite a claim from a tank crewman!
That is what happened to me in my 1974 Bug.Rolled it but not down a clift.The front window poped out in one piece then some bikers were coming up the hill and they rolled it back over upright for us.The air cleaner came off the carb and that was it.We then drove it home from Big bear to Redondo bch ca.Ahhhh good German steel.
Some of the murders by the German BND, the ex GESTAPO, known to the public:
Uwe Barschel (politician), Jürgen Möllemann (politician), Heiner Gehring (author), Martina Pflock (political activist), Tron (internet activist), Karl Koch (political/internet activist), Bernd Seiffert (human rights activist), Kirsten Heisig (author/judge), Fritz Bauer (persecutor of the Frankfurt Auschwitz processes), Markus Bott (human rights activist).
Google the names and check out my channel and homepage.
That background music is an ironic soundtrack for the little Nazi-mobile, so soon after the war. Hitler's propagandists used to call it "nigger-jew music".
"The Nazis had barred both black foreigners and jazz — which they called "Nigger-Jew Music."
You can find it on the PBS web site. Though I've also read that they didn't actually ban jazz records, just American performers. Of course, I wasn't there.
After it's driven off a cliff, it will only drive backwards from that poing on. Amazing! At least it's still drivable unlike other car makes and models which would have probably been on fire and too hot to get near to get into any gear.
Shame Hitler was an evil dictator that set germany back many years after WWII. Imagine if Germany was never ruled by an evil dicator and instead of building weapons to rule other countries in WWII they were building things for the consumor back then.
This is a damn kooky commercial. It's probably from the earl 1950s, meaning that this particular car was probably at least a few years old at the time they sacrificed it for the filming.
I flipped my 1971 Beetle on a freeway and as someone else commented, the interior strongly smelled of battery acid afterwards since (for those who don't know) the battery was underneath the back seat.
Porsche never "built" a car until Reuter Coachbuilders sold Porsche it's factory so it could go on to other things. Ferdinand only designed the car. VW built them before the war.
I know people who love vw bugs would disagree but round top or not, I think that test car was caged or braced. This looks like a propaganda movie to me.. I wouldn't mind owning a souped up beetle but a full cage would be mandatory!
To everyone saying that the window's too big to be a split, the nipple hubcaps are KDF. They never made a KDF Beetle that wasn't a split. It's a split.
@StaydrunkUK no your wrong! vw was funded by hitler and origionaly desighned and built by Fredenan Porsche who had a son who thought the beetle was too slow and boreing so in 1952 he took a beetle and modifyed the engine and meltded down the body to form the first ever Porsche. know your facts before you say stuff
@102Help Actually, Ferry Porsche had the early Porsche bodies hand hammered from new aluminum, not melted down Beetles, you are correct in saying that the early 356 Porsches had soupped up VW engines though. btw,,, Porsche is pronounced "Por-shee-ya" not like the front porch
If that was a flat roof his skull might have ended up flat too.
They certainly designed them well but can help think there was battery acid, fuel and engine oil everywhere since operating upside down wasn't part of the design brief
imagine trying to tell the personal claims people about that :D. Man: ahhh well it seemed like a good idea at the time, I thought fuck it, looked like fun on the box :D
I don't see why there's any doubt. It's a split. So many features if you know what to look for, like nipple hubcaps, grooved bumper, etc. Besides, there are several spots where you can see the split if you pause it.
@clydeburkey fuck off is it !!!!!!!!!!!!! i have 3 vw and never had any problems it was only because that guy behind the weel dont no how to use a car !
this is definitely a split window. there's no debate. sause the video frame by frame as the car goes over. you can see the split. you can see the split as it goes up the hill too if you look through the car. but most importantly, you know it's a split because of the age of the commercial.
Many years ago I spun my beloved 1953 Switter Beetle on the I-210 freeway ,doing about 85 MPH ~ when it hit the curb it flipped up and over . we were quite lucky the doors didn't pop open ,my then young wife wasn't hurt although I was . I got a passerby to help me roll it back onto it's wheels and down the embankment but the ground strap had broken so I couldn't start it up .I've worked on more crashed Beetles back in the day than most of you will ever see , they're sturdy .
I speak fluent German and the narrator is saying this is part of the pre-delivery inspection every Volkswagen undergoes at the dealership prior to being sold. In Kansas they had to truck in 180 cubic meters of German dirt for the"Drive off cliff, flip over, and catch on fire" test.
You can clearly see the split rear window and vents at the 27 sec mark. Besides, anyone that knows VWs can see it's a split. Ribbed bumpers are the first give away.
yeah, my dad had kept one closed in a garage for almost 8 years and he cleaned it took it out to see how it works. The vehicle din stared coz of a depleted battery, he pushed the vehicle several meters and the vehicle started. That was long before I was born.
Well i wish one day we can ride this amazing vehicle on moon lol.
Nah, that;s the back seat visible through the back window. The car is what it is. I don't think it was a ringer of a car. Don't necessarily think the driver was inside for the whole fall though... ;)
I see no reason that the transmission wouldn't work unless the driver WAS in the car during the fall and bent the shifter badly with his body (or more likely a front seat came loose and bent the shifter...).
I own a 1965 Beetle and I STILL don't want to be in a crash... -GRIN!-
So what have we summrised? This magical car can change the rear wiindow, works only in reverse and that after a little editing you can have footage of some guy with spotless overalls climb out of the car, seemingly unshaken.
Is there anything this car can't do?
(Citroen did the same cliff test with a Traction Avant without editing and after a bit of a breather, the driver drove on in one of three working forward gears.)
looks like it has had some metal work cut out of the back! if you stop frame at 27 seconds you see the window has been cut out and what looks like some box section put in to add some rigidity!
first beetle models had a gas pedal that looked like a ball bearing wheel...you had to actually turn it like some sort of a volume knob with your foot...great stuff.
Hitler has given Ferdinand Porshe a rough sketch of what he wanted. Hitler has theoretically designed that swooping roof and nearly every car now has that in one form or the other as that swoop has ridgidity porperties. So Hitler did care about people after all. :) This does not mean i condone the actions of this evil twisted diabolical genius. I insist! Its just a fact that he is a genius, tragic fact!
It doesnt matter I have a 64 Beetle with one-piece windows. But what uoi probably seen what the add-on one-piece windows. Remember the one-piece windows with the little notch in them for smokers. Yeah. One-piece windows doesnt classify anything, but one-piece windows.
Well at the beginning you can see that it defiantly is a split probably a 1949 or maybe even a 1950 meaning that commercial came out around then so that rules out the possibility of it being a early 60's plus the 60's back window is bigger than that.
When it falls off the cliff the window looks like a small square and if you noticed they never show the back window or they change the camera angles quickly. So i don't know whats going on.
@beetlejuice150 Its clearly a split window bug the whole time. You dont even need to see the back of the car to tell this anyways...dig the "nipple" hubcaps; those only came on splits.
In 1973, rolled my month-old bug off Mulholland Drive just east of Coldwater Canyon, 200-feet down into Beverly Hills, a hillside so steep they still haven't built houses there. Wore my seat belt and walked out, climbing back up to Mulholland. When the LAFD arrived (located then, in what is now the TreePeople headquarters), they said I was the first to survive that crash. The seat-belt helped.
...next day I hammered out the fenders and put them back on, I got the driver door to open & close and working, and it became my daily driver (and legal too!) for the next few weeks until I bought a '72 pop-top camper.
I'm glad me and the car survived, and I was resourceful, but I'd rather not experience that again.
Unfortunately I can relate to this footage, it was a 67 beetle, I was sideswiped head-on, on a mountain road straightaway. The impact started at the headlight ring & went down length of the car, & tore the rear fender off. I slid sideways into a ditch 4 ft. deep, rolled onto the passenger side. Shaken, I unbuckled seat belt, rolled down window, climbed out. Later, the tow truck came & tipped it up, pulled it out. It started, turned on headlights, put fender in back seat, drove home.
In the days of my youth we put a 1956 VW over 3 times in the middle of a country road, flipped it back on its wheels and put another 10,000 miles on it before we got around to changing bodies
God damn it finally. someone other than a Mexican(me) defends the Germans. Hitler was Germany's Harold Ford. He guild volks wagon with the help of Porsche engineer to construct "the peoples car". Later Porsche used propritary parts to build his first "PORSCHE" automobile that later became the brand that made the Panamara and the Chyanne. So everyone that loves the Porsche better "Heil Hitler" He freed Germany from the WWI injustice that the underlings did under his name.
Hitler was a dictator who is responsable for the death of millions of innocent people.
Although I love vw beeltes, and I admit that Hitler was crucial for the develoment of this great car, Hitlers role is a black page in the history of mankind.
...I never said i was defending the Germans...not that i don't like Germans, because I have German in my blood, I just dont like Nazis :) They killed my people (Catholics), y'know.
...He did nothing that has to do with freedom. I meaaaan, i'm PRETTY SURE killing millions and millions of people based on their differences in appearance, mental state, or even race is kind of the opposite of freedom...
:@ amazing
lifeisgood12341 1 month ago
HERBIE NOOOOOO!!!!!! ROFL.
discoveryman 1 month ago
its all about driving skill; being a 'careful driver' is not enough for an inexperienced driver behind the wheel of a rear-engine micro car that is being driven daily in traffic (i.e. with idiots driving big cars). one simply can't be careful for other motorists...the newer driver should have a bit more power and a lot more built-in safety in his or her ride. spend some money to protect your bod.
swimmerB0B 2 months ago
''Why drive the car backwards?''
''Than jou diden't see the cable to the bumper! drag the cable car!''
richautofan 3 months ago
I have a 67 bug and I wouldn't drive anything else ever in my life I'm a single mom with two boys it's very cheap maintenance and in this economy twenty bucks gives me a full tank I totaly recommend :)
mizzzjersey 3 months ago
So are these cars safe? I have been looking into buying one of these for a while (because they are very affordable and they have lots of charm) but i would be using it for everyday use (not just here and there)-- I would also be using it to drive home from college (2-4 times per school year) next year which is about a 400 mile trip one way-- Would you say this is a safe car for a young person who is a careful driver and do these cars have seat belts?
sewphie 3 months ago
@sewphie
68 and newer are pretty safe bugs. you can get hurt in newer cars. Its just don't take chances at intersctions and watch other drivers
taledarkside 2 months ago in playlist VW Factory
@sewphie They're not as safe as new cars, by any means (ABS, air bags, crumple zones, etc.) For the time they were good. Some even have 3-point seat belts (shoulder strap), the type 3's have this. Padded dashes are standard in the later cars, like the 70's super beetle.
But any 30-40 year old car will require regular maintenance & repair. If you want a cheap, reliable car, get something like a 6-year Nissan Sentra, which would have similar gas costs and cost about the same upfront.
MacNerfer 6 hours ago
@Torpedo1100
I was driving my beetle around one day when I noticed a man on the side of the road, I asked him if he was okay and we got chatting. It turns out he was an old desert rat. Aafter the war he returned to Africa to teach children to read. He said that he used VW beetles and camper vans to get around because they were so reliable, didn't overheat and didn't require water, which was obviously scarse. He said they were "bomb-proof" which is quite a claim from a tank crewman!
thebizzlehimself 3 months ago
por isso que esse carro nunca perde valor muito bom
vieira7390 4 months ago
Esos si eran verdaderos autos, resiste todo.
those cars were resistant to all
quelle vetture erano resistenti a tutti
die Autos waren resistent gegen alle
те автомобили были устойчивы ко всем
haidenthburg 5 months ago
That is what happened to me in my 1974 Bug.Rolled it but not down a clift.The front window poped out in one piece then some bikers were coming up the hill and they rolled it back over upright for us.The air cleaner came off the carb and that was it.We then drove it home from Big bear to Redondo bch ca.Ahhhh good German steel.
koolbossjock 5 months ago 2
Remember when a friend of mines rolled over
InYourEveryDream 5 months ago
Try it now with a New Beetle! Hahahahahahahaha
mrcelorapa 5 months ago 11
My Volkswagen <3
tbbucks2 5 months ago
Eternal cars.....
SgtoSousuke 5 months ago
i love the car germany is the best and i come from Germany
TalkTalk72 6 months ago 2
É mole ou quer mais! Fusca é Fusca!
lucianoromero01 6 months ago
Some of the murders by the German BND, the ex GESTAPO, known to the public:
Uwe Barschel (politician), Jürgen Möllemann (politician), Heiner Gehring (author), Martina Pflock (political activist), Tron (internet activist), Karl Koch (political/internet activist), Bernd Seiffert (human rights activist), Kirsten Heisig (author/judge), Fritz Bauer (persecutor of the Frankfurt Auschwitz processes), Markus Bott (human rights activist).
Google the names and check out my channel and homepage.
wwwtotalitaerde 6 months ago
vw beetle says FUCK THE LAW!!!
chancethehippie 6 months ago
"How to turn a Beetle into a Porsche by Charles Lindbergh."
Nomasain 6 months ago
@SteelCity1981
Thank you for saying everybody's thoughts out loud (:
connibonni 8 months ago
That background music is an ironic soundtrack for the little Nazi-mobile, so soon after the war. Hitler's propagandists used to call it "nigger-jew music".
lrd9999 8 months ago
@lrd9999 lol
eightalemon 8 months ago
@lrd9999 what a load of bullshit. back to history class dear.
elAzrAel 7 months ago
@elAzrAel Well, I can blame it on Ken Burns:
"The Nazis had barred both black foreigners and jazz — which they called "Nigger-Jew Music."
You can find it on the PBS web site. Though I've also read that they didn't actually ban jazz records, just American performers. Of course, I wasn't there.
lrd9999 7 months ago
After it's driven off a cliff, it will only drive backwards from that poing on. Amazing! At least it's still drivable unlike other car makes and models which would have probably been on fire and too hot to get near to get into any gear.
fitzpatrickgf 8 months ago
Hey, guys... This car is a 45-47 Beetle. Nipple hubcaps.
Shredderman35 8 months ago
That IS FUCKED UP!
phishyjerry 8 months ago
@Torpedo1100 and this is also showing why there is still alot of beetles in africa till today :D
emoo9999 9 months ago
I hope they took the collision damage waiver . . .
wpmacyt 9 months ago
Shame Hitler was an evil dictator that set germany back many years after WWII. Imagine if Germany was never ruled by an evil dicator and instead of building weapons to rule other countries in WWII they were building things for the consumor back then.
SteelCity1981 9 months ago
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SteelCity1981 9 months ago
0:35 i think he loves his job... just crashing some cars
MegaBassplayer666 9 months ago
thumbs up if you came here from RoosterTeeth !
overdosered 10 months ago 2
how old is this car actually?
KrabbendeKUTKAT 10 months ago
@MGMLV ah well...those things were just rolling off the assembly line then...
CF4LIf3 10 months ago
Ohhh that poor split! Ouch
MGMLV 10 months ago
Whats with the kkk intro! D:
newballin 10 months ago
They didn't have seatbelts back then. Ouch!
FliegenCockatiel 10 months ago
I'll be able to flee a scene pretty damn easily! : D
Engruls06 11 months ago
So if i ever decided to commit suicide...... I will be the only one that doesnt make it!!
youiable 11 months ago 25
@youiable If you ever consider suicide, talk to your significant other first. Who knows, maybe your considerations won't come to fruition! :)
the06bug 8 months ago
I notice they cut away before the driver gets out. I wonder if he was actually in it when it went over the bluff.
Hikikomori013 11 months ago
that dude must have one big sore head
hanghoodiescum 1 year ago
This is a damn kooky commercial. It's probably from the earl 1950s, meaning that this particular car was probably at least a few years old at the time they sacrificed it for the filming.
I flipped my 1971 Beetle on a freeway and as someone else commented, the interior strongly smelled of battery acid afterwards since (for those who don't know) the battery was underneath the back seat.
hebneh 1 year ago
porsche never build it but have the same engine of a porsche boxter its the same
yopelstexxx951 1 year ago
Porsche never "built" a car until Reuter Coachbuilders sold Porsche it's factory so it could go on to other things. Ferdinand only designed the car. VW built them before the war.
jockellis 1 year ago
I know people who love vw bugs would disagree but round top or not, I think that test car was caged or braced. This looks like a propaganda movie to me.. I wouldn't mind owning a souped up beetle but a full cage would be mandatory!
Cartmanland98 1 year ago
Hey,
To everyone saying that the window's too big to be a split, the nipple hubcaps are KDF. They never made a KDF Beetle that wasn't a split. It's a split.
Shredderman35 1 year ago
now do that again but in reverse!
StaydrunkUK 1 year ago
Hitler may have been some sort of an asshole, but he sure gave his people one hell of a car.
DuYiZhang 1 year ago
@DuYiZhang Ill think you find porsche gave us the beetle and hitler just funded it. Yay for Porsche!
StaydrunkUK 1 year ago
@StaydrunkUK no your wrong! vw was funded by hitler and origionaly desighned and built by Fredenan Porsche who had a son who thought the beetle was too slow and boreing so in 1952 he took a beetle and modifyed the engine and meltded down the body to form the first ever Porsche. know your facts before you say stuff
102Help 1 year ago
@102Help Actually, Ferry Porsche had the early Porsche bodies hand hammered from new aluminum, not melted down Beetles, you are correct in saying that the early 356 Porsches had soupped up VW engines though. btw,,, Porsche is pronounced "Por-shee-ya" not like the front porch
Shoknifeman 11 months ago
@Shoknifeman i say it por-sh-a
102Help 11 months ago
Its not a split.back window way too big and its not split.looks like an oval maybe?
redvdub70 1 year ago
The right door closes itselves after the crash!
68knative 1 year ago
volks ,volks..... porsche design , engine ,chasis , brake ,drive, gearbox............
for fuck reason is volkswagen??
malagarcha 1 year ago
Das ist gut Ja! lol
Commandant88 1 year ago
If that was a flat roof his skull might have ended up flat too.
They certainly designed them well but can help think there was battery acid, fuel and engine oil everywhere since operating upside down wasn't part of the design brief
xGRYFONx 1 year ago
Had the engine been in front this would have been a different story.
Ryoku75 1 year ago
That's why Herbie it's a volkswagen
Charbok001 1 year ago
imagine trying to tell the personal claims people about that :D. Man: ahhh well it seemed like a good idea at the time, I thought fuck it, looked like fun on the box :D
MadBaz101 1 year ago
LOL I wanna try that now!!
KONGONTOWER 1 year ago
wow poor split
skimboarding7 1 year ago
panzerkampfwagen in its final form
czwij 1 year ago
Okay, evidence it's a split:
0:19 Nipple hubcaps(Splits only)
0:33 One piece windows(Stock only on splits)
You can see that it's a tan color(Split)
0:27 Bar between the rear windows
0:45 Grooved bumpers(With Banana overriders)
0:50 Short windshield
0:54 Egg taillights
0:57 Split window (Look through the front windows)
Shredderman35 1 year ago
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Shredderman35 1 year ago
this is a split look from 0:16
moijteen2k 1 year ago
What a loss! A Standard Beetle! I Love them!
MrKiraly77 1 year ago
jajajaja
que genial
pobre !!!
xiovanzz 1 year ago
well they dont make'em like that anymore
talldiesel 1 year ago
you guys are a bunch of tard ass's at :17 when its driving up the hill you can see its split
Nick0wns74 1 year ago
damn don't fuck with that guy LOL
UNCIS 1 year ago
EXACTLY! I'm not the only one who sees the split.
Shredderman35 1 year ago
It's a spilt window, you catch a glimpse of it as it goes off the cliff.
davshaw5 1 year ago
@davshaw5 yes, I saw it too
mrspivvy 1 year ago
he was not in that car when it went over....noooooo way
just4fun444fun 1 year ago
lol i can see the "split-window" on 0:28 and 0:38 very clearly, maybe because i had one original split beetle half year ago :D
githcir 1 year ago
p o s
clydeburkey 1 year ago
Either that driver had a death wish or this crash was staged.
iamzbacku 1 year ago
a safe car against others in this time
Lackaffenbelustiger 1 year ago
I don't see why there's any doubt. It's a split. So many features if you know what to look for, like nipple hubcaps, grooved bumper, etc. Besides, there are several spots where you can see the split if you pause it.
joemac356 1 year ago
Yes, it's a split window. Pause the video at 0:18 and you clearly see it.
Volgaman21 1 year ago
tear.
bluntblaz3r 1 year ago
vw junk than junk now
clydeburkey 1 year ago
@clydeburkey fuck off is it !!!!!!!!!!!!! i have 3 vw and never had any problems it was only because that guy behind the weel dont no how to use a car !
HyperRyanEre 1 year ago
por split window!
jks2 1 year ago
Looks like a KDF model. Mabye a left over.
kgilroy25 1 year ago
crazy germans!!
trucker765 1 year ago
this is definitely a split window. there's no debate. sause the video frame by frame as the car goes over. you can see the split. you can see the split as it goes up the hill too if you look through the car. but most importantly, you know it's a split because of the age of the commercial.
wornoutshoes81 1 year ago
they did this to a chrysler airflow to show how strong it was!
gunny556fly 1 year ago
I wish VW still did crazy ass tests like this
pancakewafflebacon 1 year ago
#OMFG
ruchoso 1 year ago
wish that would have happened instead of dying when the beetle crashed!
johncenayoll 1 year ago
in my country (Norway) we call those cars boble that is in english bubble xD
lordkeven 1 year ago
dumbass drives his car off a cliff lol
ChevyZ71djd 1 year ago
Many years ago I spun my beloved 1953 Switter Beetle on the I-210 freeway ,doing about 85 MPH ~ when it hit the curb it flipped up and over . we were quite lucky the doors didn't pop open ,my then young wife wasn't hurt although I was . I got a passerby to help me roll it back onto it's wheels and down the embankment but the ground strap had broken so I couldn't start it up .I've worked on more crashed Beetles back in the day than most of you will ever see , they're sturdy .
VWNate1 1 year ago
I speak fluent German and the narrator is saying this is part of the pre-delivery inspection every Volkswagen undergoes at the dealership prior to being sold. In Kansas they had to truck in 180 cubic meters of German dirt for the"Drive off cliff, flip over, and catch on fire" test.
Germans are sticklers for quality.
(lol)
duanedragon2 1 year ago
How can we know if test pilot entered to the car after it falls pushed by hand from the top of the hill??
However I think they used a Jewish pilot.
Meagain74 1 year ago
Cool....
rpeek 1 year ago
LMAO ! I've done that man, haha, gotta love that German Bier !!
(Binding Bier,its not just for breakfast)
4strokespec 1 year ago
0:26 you can see the window better
Shredderman35 1 year ago
It a rounded rectagular window i puased the vid at perfect time :D So what year you thinkin im no expert but it seems similar to my dad's 70
hunterziegelmann 1 year ago
best car ever
mihailolord 1 year ago
What!
He didn't drive back up the hill?
What's up with that?
{^,^}
jetpoweredgriffin 1 year ago
So funny!
JPSL14 1 year ago
Lol. Leave it up to the germans...
RayVal53 1 year ago 6
You can clearly see the split rear window and vents at the 27 sec mark. Besides, anyone that knows VWs can see it's a split. Ribbed bumpers are the first give away.
DerOstkuste 1 year ago
yeah, my dad had kept one closed in a garage for almost 8 years and he cleaned it took it out to see how it works. The vehicle din stared coz of a depleted battery, he pushed the vehicle several meters and the vehicle started. That was long before I was born.
Well i wish one day we can ride this amazing vehicle on moon lol.
chamath1985 1 year ago
Nah, that;s the back seat visible through the back window. The car is what it is. I don't think it was a ringer of a car. Don't necessarily think the driver was inside for the whole fall though... ;)
I see no reason that the transmission wouldn't work unless the driver WAS in the car during the fall and bent the shifter badly with his body (or more likely a front seat came loose and bent the shifter...).
I own a 1965 Beetle and I STILL don't want to be in a crash... -GRIN!-
busbodger 1 year ago
Dang, did Hitler himself order that test?
ushouldntjudgeme 1 year ago
So what have we summrised? This magical car can change the rear wiindow, works only in reverse and that after a little editing you can have footage of some guy with spotless overalls climb out of the car, seemingly unshaken.
Is there anything this car can't do?
(Citroen did the same cliff test with a Traction Avant without editing and after a bit of a breather, the driver drove on in one of three working forward gears.)
Truemouse 1 year ago
looks like it has had some metal work cut out of the back! if you stop frame at 27 seconds you see the window has been cut out and what looks like some box section put in to add some rigidity!
mmmm.
neosio 1 year ago
@neosio it's a split window.
armcurl 1 year ago
first beetle models had a gas pedal that looked like a ball bearing wheel...you had to actually turn it like some sort of a volume knob with your foot...great stuff.
TupolevTech 2 years ago 3
Hitler has given Ferdinand Porshe a rough sketch of what he wanted. Hitler has theoretically designed that swooping roof and nearly every car now has that in one form or the other as that swoop has ridgidity porperties. So Hitler did care about people after all. :) This does not mean i condone the actions of this evil twisted diabolical genius. I insist! Its just a fact that he is a genius, tragic fact!
ROCKSOLID19 2 years ago 7
What is this? It can only drive in reverse after the fall?
PawlieGR 2 years ago 17
Is it just me or does it look like the wheels aren't even turning? Is it being pulled by a chain?
TheJediCharles 2 years ago
You are correct, sir. I never would have noticed had you not mentioned it.
WENDILEY1 2 years ago
@WENDILEY1
So, that means they not only senselessly destroyed a beetle, but even lied that it survived it. I wonder if that guy was even in there.
TheJediCharles 2 years ago
@PawlieGR there seems to be a wall of eart or sand in front of it so forward may have been a problem due to that ;)
BrutusCass 1 year ago
@PawlieGR because there's a mountain in front of him -_-
brandond707 1 year ago
@PawlieGR What is he going to go back up the hill?
Myaccountbastards 1 year ago
crash test dumkopf!
jeffreypeikin 2 years ago
If only Hitler had more of these at Stalingrad...Haha!
greenfuzz13 2 years ago 4
I have a few friends who rolled their beetles and drove them away. Truth is although they are tough they are not too hard to roll.
greenfuzz13 2 years ago
thats one tough bug
thekolbyko 2 years ago
Has anybody else noticed that at 0:37 it isnt a Split it is a Small-Window. But good video.
arbeitemachtfrei 2 years ago
you don't even see the rear window at 0:37
creepingdeathnu 2 years ago
You're right. You get a glimpse of the rear window at 0:27. It's not a split window indeed. I wonder if it is an oval window. Can't see it very well.
beetlejuice150 2 years ago
You can see that its a split at 0:10
Yea, i think it looks kinda like a small square window at 0:27.
This is pretty strange.
creepingdeathnu 2 years ago
@creepingdeathnu youre right
ROCKSOLID19 2 years ago
Beetlejuice150
Ithink it is an Oval. Because the vents look like they at dead-on with the window.
With a small windows vents 2 or so inches below.
SO i think it is an Oval! Good Eye!
arbeitemachtfrei 2 years ago
It's a split, it has one-piece windows.
Shredderman35 1 year ago
Shredderman35
It doesnt matter I have a 64 Beetle with one-piece windows. But what uoi probably seen what the add-on one-piece windows. Remember the one-piece windows with the little notch in them for smokers. Yeah. One-piece windows doesnt classify anything, but one-piece windows.
arbeitemachtfrei 1 year ago
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Shredderman35 1 year ago
Also, what most people are seeing as a larger rectangular window is just the split window with the vents. The quality isn't exactly crystal clear :P
Shredderman35 1 year ago
W-decklid, different hubcaps, and egg taillights, too
Shredderman35 1 year ago
Shredderman35
Nope. Sorry.
arbeitemachtfrei 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150
they show one full rear window at 27 and the one at 18 secs is a split oval.
BassnForGod 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 it doesnt matter what age it was as much as it was a vw so i care about purposly hurting it
masterpoop67 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 it is a split look in at 0:17
gokartbuyer 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 I paused it perfect, and it's too square to be an oval. Maybe very early 60s?
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77
Well at the beginning you can see that it defiantly is a split probably a 1949 or maybe even a 1950 meaning that commercial came out around then so that rules out the possibility of it being a early 60's plus the 60's back window is bigger than that.
When it falls off the cliff the window looks like a small square and if you noticed they never show the back window or they change the camera angles quickly. So i don't know whats going on.
creepingdeathnu 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 no, it's definitely a split. look again.
armcurl 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 you guys must be blind. it's a split window. the commercial is from the 40's. you just watched a splitty go over a cliff.
wornoutshoes81 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 It's split
GmTruckCarLove 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150
Look through the windshield at 0:16 . *GASP!* Oh my Ferdinand! It's a Split Window...
ZachTheHedgehog 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 Its clearly a split window bug the whole time. You dont even need to see the back of the car to tell this anyways...dig the "nipple" hubcaps; those only came on splits.
trebdude1 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 Sorry holmes Its a split lol
scooterdude1945 1 year ago
@creepingdeathnu it could be some of the first like 10 vws made, wernt there ten so they could test them on road and to see there preformance
Darklordkime 1 year ago
The Volkswagen Beetle is the only relic of Nazi Germany that is viewed as acceptable.
TashkentFox 2 years ago
BUILD TO RESIST !!!!
matteo230 2 years ago 7
In 1973, rolled my month-old bug off Mulholland Drive just east of Coldwater Canyon, 200-feet down into Beverly Hills, a hillside so steep they still haven't built houses there. Wore my seat belt and walked out, climbing back up to Mulholland. When the LAFD arrived (located then, in what is now the TreePeople headquarters), they said I was the first to survive that crash. The seat-belt helped.
spotte7777 2 years ago 19
that is kinda hard 2 belive
xXxferrari098xXx 2 years ago
@spotte7777 your lying. your only 23 you just copied the streets and landmarks from midnight club.
10yroldcarlover 1 year ago
@spotte7777 i was just there, like 10 mins ago :)
brandond707 1 year ago
...next day I hammered out the fenders and put them back on, I got the driver door to open & close and working, and it became my daily driver (and legal too!) for the next few weeks until I bought a '72 pop-top camper.
I'm glad me and the car survived, and I was resourceful, but I'd rather not experience that again.
woodsprout 2 years ago 2
Unfortunately I can relate to this footage, it was a 67 beetle, I was sideswiped head-on, on a mountain road straightaway. The impact started at the headlight ring & went down length of the car, & tore the rear fender off. I slid sideways into a ditch 4 ft. deep, rolled onto the passenger side. Shaken, I unbuckled seat belt, rolled down window, climbed out. Later, the tow truck came & tipped it up, pulled it out. It started, turned on headlights, put fender in back seat, drove home.
woodsprout 2 years ago 5
why such a waste
ilove360s 2 years ago
of corse I always drive of after crashing over a ravine
iangenet29 2 years ago 2
"beetle's are war vehicles xD" Yes, that's true, Kubelwagen was based on VW "beetle" Kafer :)
mariusz1239 2 years ago
In the days of my youth we put a 1956 VW over 3 times in the middle of a country road, flipped it back on its wheels and put another 10,000 miles on it before we got around to changing bodies
TurnpikecIII 2 years ago
people only see thee cute side of the beetles, but watchin this vid. u r watching a some kinda tank in a obstacule track,
beetle's are war vehicles xD
dbadgones 2 years ago
the way they flipped the beetle over tpowards the end made it seem like a weightless car, neat
starscream6000 2 years ago
Best Car Ever.
SuperMrBentley 2 years ago 2
Honey... what happened to the car?:)
syntaur 2 years ago
i love how he can flip it over by himself.
cmg5363 2 years ago
THe peoples car Hitler called it...btw
yeah way to go Ive seen the beetle crash test...oh wait that was probably a mexican built beetle.
WHell gotta hand it to them Nazi's they build a dman good car.
Pyroscopy 2 years ago 5
I don't think Nazi's built VW they were to busy murdering jews
Tokenda420 2 years ago
Peoples' car indeed.
Volks=folks
Wagen="wagon", car.
The common peoples' car :D
lollipopxlola 2 years ago
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God damn it finally. someone other than a Mexican(me) defends the Germans. Hitler was Germany's Harold Ford. He guild volks wagon with the help of Porsche engineer to construct "the peoples car". Later Porsche used propritary parts to build his first "PORSCHE" automobile that later became the brand that made the Panamara and the Chyanne. So everyone that loves the Porsche better "Heil Hitler" He freed Germany from the WWI injustice that the underlings did under his name.
Pyroscopy 2 years ago
Hitler was a dictator who is responsable for the death of millions of innocent people.
Although I love vw beeltes, and I admit that Hitler was crucial for the develoment of this great car, Hitlers role is a black page in the history of mankind.
beetlejuice150 2 years ago
@beetlejuice150 hey hitler just wanted a car. Its Porsche who we have to thank, so technically, it wasnt hitler (:
Franko94 1 year ago
@Franko94 that's right
Farricelli 1 year ago
@beetlejuice150 oh don't forget Henry Fords hand in it all.
BrutusCass 1 year ago
...I never said i was defending the Germans...not that i don't like Germans, because I have German in my blood, I just dont like Nazis :) They killed my people (Catholics), y'know.
...He did nothing that has to do with freedom. I meaaaan, i'm PRETTY SURE killing millions and millions of people based on their differences in appearance, mental state, or even race is kind of the opposite of freedom...
Germans are cool. Nazis are not, sir.
lollipopxlola 2 years ago 2