History of the Classiest Volkswagen
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Around 1,300 years later, Julius Caesar was on a campaign in Egypt when he came across what looked like a huge beetle with wheels. What he was in fact looking at was the exact same courtesy car given to King Tutankhamen so long ago. King Tut had decided not to tell anybody about his car and took the secret with him to his grave. The car stayed in the garage.

Caesar made a mental note to come back incognito and collect the beetle. When he eventually did come back, he took it with him to his villa in Pompeii after first consulting the manual in the glove box.

While driving to Pompeii, he was given many a stare but people just thought that it was one of those new-fangled chariots flooding the market.

On that fateful day in 44BC, Caesar was in Pompeii to get his car and take it back to Rome, where he would reveal it to the world. This was not to be. Brutus and his associates, without knowing it, had delayed the introduction of the motor car to the world by 1,900 years. The car was still in its garage when Mt Vesuvius threw up all over Caesar's garage.