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Old 06-09-2017, 02:57 PM   #6 (permalink)
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...in retrospect, he can be judged equal to car designers such as Benz, Daimler and Porsche...
Or Josef Ganz, the other progenitor of the Beetle. He was born in Budapest, Hungary.

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The book also has a new foreword, written by Norman Foster, the British architect...
It's Sir Norman Foster to us plebes.

Edit: couldn't they have used a 1302 or a '67 instead of that 2015 New Beetle? That destroyed the analogy.

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