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PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

The history of common folk owning cars is not very long. This 'weird' but efficient vehicle was a luxury
only for the very rich, until the advent of mass-produced cars. These days, countries all over the world
have popular affordable cars for the people. Although the original intentions of research and
development vary, their common concepts are compactness, convenience and multi-functionality.

Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the Porsche Car company, was a genius designer whose design
ideas have influenced many today. He has designed the Beetle, the Elephant heavy tank destroyer, the
Type82 Kübelwagen, the Type166 Schwimmwagen and Lohner-Porsche Mixed Hybrid, the world's first
car powered by hub-mounted motors in the wheel. While Ferdinand Porsche was designing , Adolf Hitler
was waging war across Europe and plunging the World into chaos. The fates of these two Austrians were
intertwined in the 1930s, when Hitler made two promises to the German people after his election as head
of the Third Reich: one was to have steak on dinner; the other was to have a car for every German family.
The car had a very specific requirement, being able to carry 2 adults and 3 children at the same time, i.e.
a standard German family, and travel at a speed of up to 100km/h, while selling for no more than 1000
Reichsmark.

In fact, during the whole war, none of this people's cars was sold to the people, they were all being
requisitioned by the army and converted into military vehicles, the most famous of which is the
Kübelwagen (Released in Nov, 2021, Product No. 11241) . We feel honored if you already own it in your
RC collection. If not, this car could be a great start to realistic scale RC models. The post-war civilian
version was the Beetle, which later became world-famous.

We start with engine. The Boxer air-cooled engine serves as the core of the car, an engine used in
several later generations of classic cars and lasted 65 years in the Beetle, a saga that came to an end
when the last Beetle, number 21,529,464, rolled off the production line in Puebla, Mexico, on July 30,
2003. Initially the Type82 used a 985cc engine, later upgraded to 1131cc, then gradually increased
displacement, and in the Porsche 356 used a 1488cc engine, doubling the horsepower from the very
beginning. The cylinders of the horizontally opposed engine are distributed on both sides, a 130 motor in
the right cylinder position, and another 130 motor reserved for the left side, which can output twice as
much power when applied to the VW T1 or Porsche356 platform. The engine crankshaft flywheel is
connected by a belt to drive the generator and the cooling fan as well. The semi-circular fan fairing is a
major feature, in which the airflow is distributed to the cylinders on both sides. All is faithfully restored on
the model, meaning you can observe the blades rotating through the fan intake when the motor is
running. The Kübelwagen has 4 forward gears and the maximum speed of each gear respectively goes
as 1st gear 18.4km/h; 2nd gear 32.4km/h; 3rd gear 54.2km/h; 4th gear 83.6km/h. The corresponding red
line of gearshift tips is available on the dashboard. On the model, we designed a 2-speed shift to simulate
the speed of the 1st and 3rd gears of the real car. The power crosses over from the top of the rear axle
differential and then returns to the rear axle. The model shares the same structure as the real engine,
with the benefit of compactness, making it easy to switch between 4WD and RWD modes. This shift
function is perfectly reproduced on the model to provide more driving pleasure when driving off-road.