MAJORETTE VINTAGE DELUXE VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE (White)

The Volkswagen Beetle officially the Volkswagen Type 1  informally in German der Käfer, in parts of the English-speaking world the Bug, and known by many other nicknames in other languages is a two-door rear-engine economy car intended for five occupants that was manufactured and marketed by German automaker Volkswagen  from 1938 until 2003.
The need for a people's car, its concept and its functional objectives were formulated by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, who wanted a cheap, simple car to be mass-produced for his country's new road network . Members of the National Socialist party, with an additional dues surcharge, were promised the first production, but the Spanish Civil War shifted most production resources to military vehicles to support the Nationalists under Francisco Franco.
Lead engineer Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalized the design. Béla Barényi is credited with conceiving the original basic design for this car in 1925. With 21,529,464 produced, the Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single platform ever made.
Although designed in the 1930s, due to World War II, civilian Beetles only began to be produced in significant numbers by the end of the 1940s.
The Beetle marked a significant trend, led by Volkswagen and then by Fiat and Renault, whereby the rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout increased from 2.6 percent of continental Western Europe's car production in 1946 to 26.6 percent in 1956.
Over time, front-wheel drive, and frequently hatchback-bodied cars would come to dominate the European small-car market. In 1974, Volkswagen's own front-wheel drive Golf hatchback succeeded the Beetle. In 1994, Volkswagen unveiled the Concept One, a retro-themed concept car with a resemblance to the original Beetle, and in 1998 introduced the New Beetle, built on the contemporary Golf platform with styling recalling the original Type 1. It remained in production through 2010, and was succeeded in 2011 by the Beetle, the last variant of the Beetle, which was also more reminiscent of the original Beetle.