It was almost seventy years ago since Volkswagen has created the original Beetle. Volkswagen which means “people’s car” in German was set up by the Nazis to build inexpensive cars for the German public.

It was Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, a brilliant designer who was tasked of creating a car that could carry two adults and three children costing only less than £50 which was then only half the price of other cars available on the market.

Adolf Hitler has given the go signal for the production of the Beetle in 1936. Unfortunately before production can commence, the World War II broke out and VW’s factory in Wolfsburg has switched to producing military vehicles.

The VW factory was ruined during the war and was rebuilt under the guidance of the British Army officers headed by Major Ivan Hirst.  Ten thousand vehicles were then produced in 1946. Afterwards the factory was offered to the British carmaker Rootes which has declined the offer by saying that the Beetle’s design doesn’t possess any special brilliance. To cut the story short the Beetle later on was given the nickname the “Bug” and later on become an icon of the 60s and became the world’s best-selling car in 1972 surpassing the Model T Ford in 1972.

Production later on was switched to Mexico in the year 1978 where the last original Beetle number 21,529,464 came off the line in 2003.

And today, Europe’s largest will once again relive the glory of the original Beetle by building another no-frills “People’s Car” for the 21st century.

The small 111/2foot-long four-seater will be unveiled on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show. And like the original Beetle of which more than 21 million were sold it will also have its engine in the rear with luggage space under the hood.

The new Beetle will cost around £4,000 in China, India and other developing countries while in Britain and Europe the car will cost about £5,000. For the West the new Beetle is likely to be offered with a three-cylinder petrol engine while a two cylinder engine is scheduled to be offered somewhere else.

This new Beetle will be named Up and is likely to be offered in both three and five-door guises and believe to have a ultra-frugal fuel consumption of 100 miles per gallon.

There are also reports stating that Apple is also working on an intelligent version of the car complete with wi-fi internet access. The car will be called the iCar that is according to German language magazine Capital reports.

Although the said car is still being discussed the Sueddeutsche.de has already reported the possible cost of the iCar which according to them is 6,500 euro.