How to pronounce Volkswegan?

'Voh-kss-wagin'

Volkswagen is an automobile manufacturer

Volkswagen (abbreviated VW) is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Volkswagen was originally founded in 1937 by the National Socialist trade union German Labour Front

This international company is known worldwide for its production of the Beetle, sustained by a series of films featuring the car as the central ‘character’ that commenced with The Love Bug (1973) and revived in a new Beetle design in 1998 by J. Meys. Volkswagen's origins lay in Ferdinand Porsche's designs for small cars in the early 1930s, the most significant of which was his design for a ‘people's car’—the KdF-Wagen—for the Reichsverband des Automobilindustrie (State Union of the Automobile Industry). Its engineering qualities included a rear-mounted air-cooled engine. The distinctive ‘streamlined’ shape of the car owed something to precedent, particularly in the USA, and was designed by Austrian car bodywork designer Erwin Komenda. Although the first models came off the production line at Wolfsburg in 1938 the car was not put into mass production on a large scale until after the Second World War, during which Volkswagen manufactured over 100,000 military vehicles. Volkswagen automobile production began in earnest under the British in Germany in 1945, with exports commencing in 1949, the year in which the company returned to German control. Economic and durable, the car sold well in both Europe and the United States, in the latter providing a striking alternative to the large, petrol-hungry cars produced by General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.