This may be your last chance to own a brand new VW Beetle! The 2019 “Final Edition” is the last of this 80-year-old iconic model as Volkswagen steers towards its line of all-electric vehicles.

autobahn-performance.com takes a look back in time and recounts some of the extraordinary milestones of the Beetle along with some lesser known and surprising facts.

The first Beetle, known as the Type 1, was commissioned by none other than Adolf Hitler. Volkswagen was founded in Wolfsburg, Germany in 1937 and was owned by the German government, originally named “Volkswagenwerk” which translates to “The People’s Car Company.”

The Type 1 rolled off the assembly line in 1938 and has had many nicknames since then, Käfer (Beetle in German), Beetle, and Bug to name a few. One nickname it could or should have garnered but never did was that of the car's designer, Ferdinand Porsche (yes, the founder of the Porsche car company).