Talk:Volkswagen Kübelwagen

message: For those who want to know: a standard German "Kübel" is a large bucket with smaller variants having different terms, or the other way round it is a smaller open vessel for liquids. The term is borrowed from southgerman languages usage where it was also used literally for all bucket types (standard German "Eimer"). They have borrowed it from latin "cupella" (drinking vessel) and its cousin "cupa" (mug) which contemporary English features as cup. The "bucket car" is about a direct translation while "tub car" is translating better what the original name does imply. Guidod 10:28, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kübelwagen Etymology 

message: Please stop wikifying "Thing". If users want to add info about this vehicle, they can add it on this page. The title "Thing" is a very bad title for a car. I'm about to redirect "VW Thing" to this page. Hotlorp
::Hi, the "Thing" is the US name of the VW 181 which is it successor and is a different car developed in the 60s (based on this i bit, but there is quite a difference. Anyway, they deserve a separate article if different versions of the Porsche 911 do. "VW thing" should not direct to this article. --Tom of north wales (talk) 19:13, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thing 

message: Assigned in 56 at the "Dreux Air Force Base"under NATO Command, I've discovered and bought her from a peasant, around Argentan, 14, France, deeply buried under hay to steal away. I've restored and upgraded her in 59-60 with newer parts, hydraulic brakes for cable ones and telescopic hydraulic shock absorbers for friction ones, 1200 engine for 1000 one, 16" thinner wheels for  16" wider wheels from a scraped 56 VW combi. She is still running today around Danville-Richmond, QC, Canada. Her serial number is still 2028877. All original parts are well preserved. The 56 VW combi T1 had the same drivetrain than the one of VW 82, with swing axle and reduction gears at rear and lifted up upright at front.
In friendly off road competiion, in the 80s, she proved superiror to the military Kaiser  Jeep M38 A1/A2 and civilian CJ 5/CJ7 with 4 people aboard who can lift her up and by her ZF self lock diff on sandy or muddy terrain. We gotta drive fast thru, by lack of 4X4 capabilities, as for the Baja Californian Dune Buggies.
The 4 doors can interchange in seconds as well as the engine compartment lid with the one of the luggage compatment, just behind the rear seats. A jerrycan  has its location inside, by the pedals, between the front wheels and the gas tank is so high placed, over the passenger knees, that it needs almost no gas pump to feed the engine. Simplicity and rusticity were the motto.
Takima 20:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My VW 82 

message: According to Karl Ludvigsen, in his book "Battle for the Beetle" (), pp. 173-179,  a Kubelwagen captured in North Africa reached the U.S. Army's Aberdeen (Maryland) Proving Ground (no final "s") in mid-1942.  Although the referenced "Volkswagen Military Vehicles of the Third Reich" shows this on page 63 with the caption Kubelwagen restoration ..., the actual purpose was the preparation of TM-E9-803, an extremely detailed analysis and operator's manual, plus maintenance and troubleshooting information for any U.S. military personnel who might encounter an abandoned one, so that it might be repaired if necessary and used for additional transportation.  A link to this publication is included with the Wikipedia article on the Kubelwagen, but for those who earlier wanted an actual reprint of the original, in 1972 Post-Era Books of Arcadia, California reprinted it plus a few pages of introductory information with the title "Volkswagen for the Wehrmacht" (ISBN 911160-43-4).
In a related discussion, there is objection to the name "Thing;" however a civilian vehicle based on the Kubelwagen design was sold in the U.S. during 1973 and 1974 with that name.  It had been built earlier in Germany, but these and later ones were assembled in Mexico of German-made parts ("Volkswagen History to Hobby", by Bob Cropsey).
76.254.49.145 (talk) 08:30, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Analysis of a Kubelwagen by the U.S. Army 

message: Discussing Kübelsitzwagen, I would like to suggest the word "Kübel" may have better English translation such as "cube" or "cubic", which simply refers to its box-shaped body, in contrast to the oval body of VW Beetle. "Sitz" refers to the "wagen" utility, meaning that it is a seating car (something likes sedan), not a truck car. Later in production, the "Kübelsitzwagen" was then shortened to "Kübelwagen". So, does it sound better to call the "Kübelsitzwagen" or "Kübelwagen" a "Box-shaped (body) seating car", instead of a "vomiting bucket-seats car" ?
A different view from Taiwan, James Young. 2019/1/4  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.217.193.61 (talk) 08:04, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: While I always thought that "bucket" referred to the shape of the bodywork overall, the German wp has had similar content since it was first written back in 2004. If this is a misunderstanding, then it is a very widespread one.  Mr.choppers | ✎  12:23, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deutsch: Kübelsitzwagen = English: Box-shaped (body) seating car ?