So named because its headlights are lower than those on the later ... Designed by Ghia and coachbuilt by Karmann, the Karmann Ghia was revealed to VW execs as a fait accompli.

And so the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia was born, giving the German marque a second product line. It still used Beetle mechanicals and was built at the same Karmann factory in Onsabrück that was ...

Largely hand-built, the Karmann Ghia was expensive, at about twice the cost of a standard 1500 sedan. Production amounted to 42,498 between 1961 and 1969, a fraction of the Type 1 Ghia’s run.