The Volkswagen Schwimmwagen (lit. 'swimming car') is a light four-wheel drive amphibious car, used extensively by German ground forces during the Second World War. Prototyped as the Type 128, it entered full-scale production as the Type 166 in 1941 for the Wehrmacht. Schwimmwagens were produced by the Volkswagen factory at Fallersleben /Stadt des KdF-Wagens and Porsche's facilities in Stuttgart; with the bodies (or rather hulls) produced by Ambi Budd in Berlin.