Approximate Sales: 21,529,464

The first prototypes of the Beetle were seen in the year 1935 and the Wolfsburg-based VW plant began series production of the model in the December of 1945. the first customers of the VW Beetle was the British military who ordered 200 trailers, 500 special vehicles and 20,000 cars; that order could only be completed in mid-1945. beginning with a humble 55 units in its first year, the last Beetle to have rolled off the production plants bore the number 21,529,480, rounding off an amazing and record-breaking run for the vehicle that almost single-handedly became a symbol of the post-war German economic boom.