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Trainspotters have one last chance to see Berlin's beloved Model 485s, known to fans as "Coke Cans," before the city decommissions the last of its GDR S-Bahn trains.
A classic car, a cheesy logo and a death mask – the tourism icons you must see in your lifetime
Our journey around the world in 80 objects continues with an unmistakable car, a golden mask and a ubiquitous logo
VW Bettle: the car was a simple, reliable, indisputable classic
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We ve reached the third instalment of our journey around the world in 80 objects – things, great and small, famous and obscure, which shed a particularly revealing light on a place or culture. We started off with our first 10, followed by another three. Here are three more.
14 . The VW Beetle, Germany
To millennials, it must seem like the strangest of outliers in the history of motor-car design. That’s probably about right – the curving roofline, bug-eyed headlights and the tinny whirr of its air-cooled engine, located, eccentrically, behind the rear seats, were unlike anything else on the road. It was a design byway which, though hugely successful, led nowhere.