Saturday, March 24, 2012

Book Review--Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the VW Beetle

Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen BeetleThinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle by Andrea Hiott

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle" is more of a history book than a car book. Andrea Hiott gets inside the minds and motivations of the principles involved with the making of the VW Bug, from Hitler to Porsche and beyond. She talks about World War II and advertising history in a multifaceted book that is deceptively small itself, but, like the Beetle, packed with personality.



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