In the 1970s, Volkswagen’s “Floating Beetle” commercial demonstrated the Beetle’s tightly sealed construction by depicting it floating on water, quite a daring marketing approach. Quoted from an email Lew Wood, the actor in the commercial, sent one Youtube creator: “They hired a stuntman to drive the VW into the water. However, [director] Norm Greiner suddenly woke up to the fact that I had to deliver that last line ‘Now, what other car gives you this kind of quality at this kind of price?’ from

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