The entire history of VOLKSWAGEN in 50 MINUTES

Roughly one in every four cars on any busy European boulevard belongs to the same corporate parent, and beneath a family hatchback, a luxury grand tourer and a two-hundred-thousand-dollar supercar sits the same grid of stamped steel. The story begins at Ferdinand Porsche's drafting table in Stuttgart in 1931 and runs through a dictator's stamp book that never delivered a single car, a British army major in a bombed-out factory, a ruthless grandson and a few lines of illegal software code that brought the whole empire to its knees. Volkswagen is not an automaker that happens to share parts; it is a parts-sharing machine that happens to make cars. Chapters: 0:00 An Empire of Disguises 2:29 The Bohemian Engineer 4:57 The Dictator's Stamp Book 8:06 The British Major 11:29 The Wolfsburg Miracle 15:47 Think Small 18:29 The One-Trick Pony 21:18 The Golf Gamble 24:07 The Four-Brand Grid 26:54 The Grandson's Obsession 30:24 Collecting the Crown Jewels 33:48 The Family War 37:18 The Lego Kit 40:10 The Defeat Device 46:19 The Electric Pivot 49:32 The Eternal Platform