VW Camper Van

As everyone knows, Adolph Hitler scribbled his design idea for a people’s car or ‘Volkswagen’ and this became the VW Type I (more commonly known as ‘The Beetle’).

• What most people probably do not know is that a VW Type II became the equally iconic camper van.

EB Veyron 16.4

Some years after the founder’s death, the Bugatti brand was all-but-dead in Milan. It was however, revived, and car production resumed — in France. The parent company is German: Volkswagen. The car is therefore thoroughly European in nature and culture.

The original idea was to make a production car that generated over a thousand horsepower… something of a holy grail for the motor car industry, and a design feat that many considered impossible.