"In 1936, prototypes of a car called ""strength through joy"", with a round shape and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine, appeared and was developed to become which car that is still recognisable?"
Volkswagen ordinary Germans would buy the car by means of a savings scheme (""" – "Five marks a week you must put aside, if you want to drive your own car""), which around 336,000 people eventually paid into. However, the entire project was financially unsound, and only the Nazi party made it possible to provide funding. Prototypes of the car called the "KdF-Wagen" (German: "Kraft durch Freude" – "Strength through Joy"), appeared from 1938 onwards (the first cars had been produced in Stuttgart). The car already had its distinctive round shape and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine. The VW car was just
Flat-four engine flat-four engine and, shortly after, a flat-six version was also available. The engine was conventionally mounted lying between the frames of the chassis, water cooled, and having an attached four speed helical gearbox. Unusually for its day it had equal bore and stroke of 95 mm. The car was made in London until Armstrong Whitworth took over production in 1904, and then was made in Newcastle until c1907. One example still exists. Tatra introduced an air-cooled flat-four engine in the 1926 Tatra 30, followed by the T52 in 1930, T54 in 1931, T57 in 1931, and T75 in 1933, all