Béla Barényi
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Béla Barényi was an ethnic Hungarian engineer from Austria-Hungary, who was a prolific inventor, sometimes even compared to Thomas Edison. Barényi made numerous crash protection inventions, and is therefore regarded as the father of passive safety in automotive design.
Barényi's birth house, the villa of the Austrian industrial magnates of the Keller family into which Barényi was born
A crash-tested Mercedes-Benz.
The 1953 Mercedes 180 'Ponton' was the first to include the basic Barényi "three-box" design concept, wherein the central passenger-cell is more rigid than the car's nose and tail "boxes".
Volkswagen Beetle
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The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is a small car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003. It is one of the most iconic cars in automotive history, recognised for its distinctive shape. Its production period of 65 years is the longest of any single generation of automobile, and its total production of over 21.5 million is the most of any car of a single platform.
1965–1966 Volkswagen Käfer
Two KdF cars on the Reichsautobahn, c. 1943. Since the KdF was never delivered to the public, it is likely that this was an advertisement photo.
Sand-coloured VW Type 82E with four-wheel drive–a Wehrmacht Beetle.
The Porsche 64 (pictured in 1981) was largely derived from the Beetle.