The Volkswagen Schwimmwagen (lit. 'swimming car') is a light four-wheel drive amphibious car, used extensively by German ground forces during the Second World War. With over 15,000 units built, the Schwimmwagen is the most-produced amphibious car in history. [1]

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On September 21, 1940, the first box-like Schwimmwagen model appeared, looking very much like the Kubel Type 87, with doors welded shut. Decades after the war (from 1973 to 1976), a variant of this car reappeared in both the United States and Mexico as the Volkswagen “Thing.”

The Schwimmwagen was a sub-product of the legendary Volkswagen beetle conversion into mass production for the Wehrmacht, under the name "Kübelwagen", literally, "bucket-car". A new model was studied by Erwin Komenda, car body designer of Ferdinand Porsche, in 1940, to provide an amphibious car.

2024年7月23日 · The German light amphibious car, which resembles a small civilian sports car and has a boat-shaped open body, is highly maneuverable. The Germans call this vehicle a Schwimmwagen, literally enough, while on the Allied side it sometimes is spoken of as an amphibious Volkswagen.

2024年1月11日 · The Volkswagen Schwimmwagen, literally translated as “swimming car,” was a light four-wheel drive amphibious car extensively used by German ground forces during the Second World War. In 1936, the project was initiated to transform the civilian Volkswagen 60 into a military vehicle capable of transporting four people along with their equipment.

2020年2月18日 · The Volkswagen Type 166 Schwimmwagen was one of the most remarkable vehicles developed during WW2. It was an amphibious 4×4 designed by the same man who would later design the Porsche 356 and the Porsche 550 , and who had significant input into the design of the Porsche 911 – Erwin Komenda.

The Volkswagen Schwimmwagen (lit. ' swimming car ') is a light four-wheel drive amphibious car, used extensively by German ground forces during the Second World War. With over 15,000 units built, the Schwimmwagen is the most-produced amphibious car in history. [1]

The Volkswagen Schwimmwagen was an amphibious vehicle used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. It was mechanically based on the Kübelwagen which in turn was based.

2023年1月10日 · Like many of Volkswagen's early cars, the Schwimmwagen was built so Adolf Hitler's war machine could spread across any terrain on the European battlefield. Despite the moral dilemma behind...