The new beetle ran infinitely published 13 years, now generation replaces II him. She should strip the fabric softener image more and maskuliner, at last. We have added also the ancestor to the comparison.
It is now it no longer all be purring and Getatschel, nice and friendly. And when again one tries to him plant a flower on the dashboard, then he taps him with the gear lever on the paws.
14 Years after the round gelutschten resurrection of VW Beetle would beetle number II with a new target group flirt: men. No, not in the meaning of "Gay car of the year" (as its predecessor was often on the podium). The average man to finally interested in him.
Distinctive and angular instead of schnuckelig and sweet
For hiding beetle is the VW athletic deeper, its round tail lights are the sack, it takes square and arises on particularly large wheels. So far, so nice, pardon, cool. Whether this operation brings the desired success, must show first.
As you know, the old beetles are yes everything else as angular or flat - and are still mainly of men loved and cared for. As steals the new VW Beetle in his first exit in Stuttgart a wonderfully restored sports beetle with iconic Herbie stickers and hectic schnatterndem 1.200er boxers a little the show. "God, who is sweet", says a bearded passerby of the 1961 VW. We find also.
Beetle that wants to be the new VW yes no longer. Not already in its second version with aerodynamischem Board of Vespers at the rear, 19-inch tires and race-GTI engine under the hood. The new VW Beetle: straight jumps of the Golf IV platform with compound crank rear axle on the VI variant with multimedia links and the new TSI engines of 1.4 to 2 litres. And engine version EA888 makes third modernist start button pressure acoustic powerful.
Deep and - say the redeeming M Word - male grunts of the two-litre four-cylinder engine in the VW Beetle from the double inlet-end tubes. By the way, you look like smoke pipes in addition to the smoking Strohhalmchen of Grandpa's.
Gas freely, and the beetle shoots game away like a young dog with a view to the sausage. Hardly any of the missing ten respect PS to the 210 of GTI. During each switching operation of six-speed double clutch transmission (in the oil bath for more torque strength), the gas exchange in a bassigen Ploppen unloads, and there is no doubt that this power extremely vertical warps the corners of the mouth fans of per sex.
What was also to be expected. Just because VW over stulpt a retro body, that changes nothing on the known balanced golf driving characteristics. Wobbles of VW rolling in the future in the Mexico Puebla of the band beetle with a powerful road holding to curves, with its precise as affected low-drive electromechanical steering and takes very tight curves even still slightly looser: in contrast to the base by five centimeters to 2.53 metres shortened wheelbase helps manoeuvring in the city.
What the VW Beetle but in the sport variant also inherits, is also the basic Straffheit of GTI. Which in turn is somewhat inappropriate, because all understanding of his manhood, none decreases the really tough guy on him.
Seis drum, it will be him in assimilable subdued variants. Only on the emotional Adaptive damper as in the Gulf, the buyer do without. "Expected to be low installation rate" - and even they not pay off in the strong scale-effect-driven VW Group. Since it is rather in the Interior Wolfsburg-based car giant development effort and-gelder.
Exactly this is S. for the successful alternative to the hyperactive playground in targeted as direct competitors, the Mini Cooper The painted wide front creates peace, the perfectly readable instruments ensure steady flow of information and the known operating elements for clarity.
Also just keep the flap is fun in the VW Beetle Interior, because the upper glove compartment swings out as reminiscent of the original upwards. Which means of course that hardly what fit, but there are including even a klappendes down second tray. The attentive observer in the triangles of the mirror reads "Fender". Outside resulting in Europe of Melomania circles just shrug, is a strong term to many Americans: Fender guitars are legendary, their car HiFi equipment but so far non-existent.
VW Beetle popular in America
Makes nix, Panasonic has joined forces with the heroes of the string and is into its extensive sound system voting know-how. For many this may be only a marginal aspect, but beetle borders it clearly the by far most important target market of VW: America. There, almost half of the previously 1.2 million built copies have been sold by its predecessor. In Germany it was only a tenth of that.
In contrast to the ultra-pragmatic golf the VW allows beetle is also quite offensive weaknesses. In the rear, even the original beetle offers more headroom, and the number of seats is limited to four. "As we make follows function clear form", which give to VW men honestly. To just found that it was up to the trunk now to 100 litres. Pleased.
Even better, but we find the good all-round visibility with the wide sides and the rear window drawn down. Where front and rear ends, it has only anticipated, however, when the original beetle. We need to adopt now on. He rolls back in the Museum and can look forward there quite freely, if one finds him cute.
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