The Love Bug MG and a pearl white Volkswagen Beetle. The Volkswagen Beetle was chosen as it was the only one that elicited the crew to reach out and pet it. The Volkswagen brand name, logo or shield does not feature anywhere in the film, as the automaker did not permit Disney to use the name. The only logos can be briefly seen in at least two places, however. The first instance is on the brake pedals during the first scene where Herbie takes control with Jim inside (on the freeway when Herbie runs into Thorndyke's Rolls Royce), and it is shown in
Bucky Bug wife), Bo Bug (a hobo and Bucky's best friend), the Mayor (June's father), Grandpa Bootle Beetle (Bucky's adopted grandfather), and others. American Bucky stories almost always had the characters speaking in rhyme. Bucky's regular monthly feature ended in 1950, but he still makes frequent appearances in Dutch stories up to the present time. Bucky is the first Disney character to make his first appearance in a comic strip outside The Mickey Mouse Universe. He made a very brief cameo early in the 1988 Touchstone Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". His first story is "Bucky Makes His Name", published