VW Typ 82 Kübelwagen
From 1938, Volkswagen (originally Fallersleben, from 1945 Wolfsburg) built the Kübelwagen based on the Beetle - also known as the KdFwagen - without four-wheel drive but with a reinforced chassis and an air-cooled engine. This made the vehicle suitable for use even at higher temperatures. It became the cheaper replacement for the Wehrmacht-Gespanne (Zündapp KS 750 and BMW R75). For example, as a command vehicle, as well as a radio and telephone vehicle for staff departments, communication and reconnaissance units, and as a loudspeaker and measuring vehicle, at field post and propaganda companies. A total of approximately 52,000 were built by the end of the war.
