Major Ivan Hurst, a legendary figure in Volkswagen history, finds one of the pre-war production beetles. He's like, hey, this thing's actually pretty good. And I think we can maybe do something with this here. So he amazingly proposes and convinces the British command to leave the factory in Wolfsburg. From that seed order, like that is now the new Volkswagen.

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