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1947 VW Beetle-Based V2 Sagittar is More Aerodynamic than New Golf, Mercedes CLA!
Can you imagine a 24-hp car that could reach a top speed of 140 km/h (87mph)? If you think such a performance is hard to achieve now, imagine what it was like in the 1940s. Because the car we're talking about was developed toward the end of World War II by a German engineer by the name of Kurt Volkhart.
In the early 1940s he started work on streamlined versions of VW's Typ-60 Beetle, as he wanted to explore Baron von König-Fachsenfeld's aerodynamics studies. This is how the "V2 Sagitta" project was born. Read more »
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