Posted on 04/18/2011 11:43:53 AM PDT by AfricanChristian
3-year-old Love Bug gets flatter roof to look 'sportier' Design spearheads major assault on U.S. market by VW Volkswagen has reinvented its cult Beetle for the third time in 73 years. The ergonomic new design, which will be offered initially to U.S. customers, gives the car a flatter roof, a less bulbous shape, narrowed windows and a sharp crease along the side. It is the first overhaul of the Bug since 1998, when Volkswagen came up with the New Beetle, a curvaceous front-wheel drive version of the classic car.
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Does it come in a diesel version?..............
Still looks like a chick car to me.
Very nice, but just give us the old Beetle. There was nothing wrong with it at all.
I’ll upgrade it to: chick car you don’t mind borrowing from the wife once in a while.
There really wasn't. Amazing how many of those old, air-cooled Bugs (many a 16-year old's first car) are still puttering away in the slow lane.
If you show up in a date driving one of those things you can be 100% sure nothings happening later.
Except the timing chain was a &*#&^@ to change.
I used mine to drive up stream beds to the mouth of caves with guys hanging onto the running boards all the way.
A great car.
So basically they made it look like an Audi TT.
A while back there was a sitcom with Dan Cortese where his friend bought a VW Rabbit. Dan told him it was a girl’s car so the friend went and got a bumper sticker that said “I dig chicks”. Dan told him “Great, now it’s a dyke’s car.”
It needs the 3.6liter V6 280 horsepower engine with the Haldex four wheel drive and the six speed manumatic.
Yes there was.
Cons:
1.) No heat in the cold.
2.) Valves a pain in the @ss to adjust.
3.) No structural protection for frontal impacts.
4.) Fuel tank perfectly positioned for a fiery demise in a front-end collision.
5.) Oil “strainer” instead of oil filter.
6.) Not exactly a “chick magnet” (unless you were around a rock concert in the 1960’s).
Pros:
1.) Reasonable gas mileage.
2.) Floats (for a while at least).
3.) EXCELLENT traction
4.) High Fun Factor.
5.) Ran forever if properly maintained (aside from those valve adjustment challenges).
5.) Easy to pickup and carry while intoxicated at college parties.
When I had one of these (1961 Bug w/sun roof), gas was $.34 a gallon ($.189 in a gas war) and I could move all my belongings in it with the rear seat folded down. It did get 30 mpg, but I can do that now in a far larger, better car.
No thanks, Volkswagen.
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