After Effects
While the Airflow may have signaled Chrysler's attempt to set itself apart from other manufacturers, the failure of the car in the marketplace caused the company to take a more conservative path with its future models. Until the debut of Virgil Exner's "Forward Look" cars of 1955, Chrysler's corporate styling was conservative and mainstream.
It is rumoured that Ferdinand Porsche imported an early Airflow coupe into Germany, and using this model for "inspiration", designed the first Volkswagen Beetle. The similarities between early Volkswagens and the Airflow coupes could be a testimony to this hypothesis.. However, the general lines of the KDF-Wagen were drawn as early as 1932, and the Czech Tatra T97 is a far more likely inspiration.
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