1938 · 🇩🇪 Germany · 46 hp
By 1973 the air-cooled Type 1 ran a 1600cc flat-four producing around 46 hp. Originally conceived as Germany's people's car in 1938, it became a global counterculture icon, eventually surpassing the Ford Model T as the world's best-selling single-platform vehicle with over 21.5 million built.