1968
7 FEBRUARY 1968 – WOLFSBURG – Export record. Beetle – 300,000 for Netherlands.
The 500,000th Beetle rolled off the assembly line at the Volkswagen plant in Emden in mid-March. Since the start of production at the end of 1964, exactly 3 years, 3 months and 3 days have passed until the anniversary Beetle. The approximately 6,000 Emden employees currently produce 1,100 Beetles and 135 VW Clippers per day. The Emden cars are almost exclusively each. exported to the United States.
MARCH 1968 – EMDEN – Production record Volkswagen – 500,000
Otto Hoehne, member of the VW AG board of directors, presented the car to the National Child Protection Institute.
12 JUNE 1968, 1.30 PM – PUEBLA – Production record for Mexico – Volkswagen – 100,000
Here we see the special car arriving by train at the central delivery and distribution operations centre of Dutch national importer Pon’s Automobielhandel in Leusden near Amersfoort.
8 OCTOBER 1968 – WOLFSBURG – Production record for Netherlands. Volkswagen – 500,000.
29 NOVEMBER 1968 – WOLFSBURG – Production record. Volkswagen – 15,000,000
WOLFSBURG – Production record for Israel – Volkswagen – 9000
WOLFSBURG – Production record for Japan – Beetle – 25,000th
