Spotted: Volkswagen New Beetle RSi

Spotted: Volkswagen New Beetle RSi

Posted on 01-06-2014 at 13:16 by ricardo – 26 Comments”

Volkswagen New Beetle RSi
Like Volkswagen, even a crazy splurge, but it is also right crazy.

Yes, the New Beetle was a cute make-updoosje on wheels. With his bloemenvaasje on the dashboard, touching kikkerogen and a curved roofline. Did well with the females, this attempt of VW to enjoy a crazy and retro. Until someone in the higher VW-regions, the nursery took command and gave the feminine Beetle revival to inject with the famous 3.2-litre VR6 block. Together with a 4-Motion drivetrain and a manual zesbak was a suddenly, one of the most circuitwaardige cars from the Volkswagen line-up.

Dressed in a body kit of the car on both sides, 8 cm wider and with a big taartschep on the round butt was the Volkswagen finally managed to get a Beetle to make the testosterondragende part of the autopubliek knew to speak. The six-cylinder engine, which previously did service in the Corrado and the Passat, kicked the 1.5-ton(!) weighing car in 6,4 seconds to the hundred-and accelerated to 225 km/h.

The downside? It was a project of prestige with a limited edition of only 250 pieces. Also got the car in the Netherlands coolly a price tag of €107.000. Thus was he at the time was more expensive than the entry level of the Porsche 911 (996). And then will earn you a feather as j here the cut out for the pull, the car on yellow plates, making it spotterslegioen the New Beetle RSi 13 years later, still on the sensitive plate can capture.

Check the spot of @ronald1 on Autojunk.nl and click yourself a couple of RSI-complaints.


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