I get the creeps from a Beetle

Posted on 08-07-2016 at 9:59 am by Dizono – 55 Comments”

Every time I eat one, see drive starts to itch.

There are a lot of cars which I totally do not feel. I observe them and confirm unconscious of their presence. that’s about it. Fortunately, there are also sat in cars with me a certain emotion disconnect. Usually this is positive, I can be a lot of ugly cans in my heart, but there is one car where I have a deep-seated aversion to have.

If I have one, see drive, than I feel from my toes to the jitters coming on. Ignoring it is impossible, if only because the bitch there is too much noise for makes. That is exactly the only sensation that a Bug offers you: floor the throttle and the only thing that happens is that there is still more gas in the sound is converted.

Where do those creeps come from? His dubious origins, is it not, that the Bug itself has nothing to do. In fact, that the history of one of the world’s best-selling car is still a bit obscure, is to me actually one of the few interesting aspects of the first Volkswagen.

His caricatural appearance can’t be helping. Where the early Beetles have a child of their time, and were I them impossible ugly can find, the later Beetles exaggerated bulbous cars where expertly any form of subtlety to emerge. But what touches me the most cross, it is the success that the car had.

It was the most popular car since the Ford Model T, between 1937 and 2003, there were more than twenty million built. Although the Golf that number has already overtaken you, you can get it to his successor hard on one car. The Golf I will not only screw more with the Golf VII, while the last Mexican Beetles in 2003, direct descendants of the first KdF-car from 1937.

Anyway, a resounding success so that Beetle. But why actually? Of course, the car was cheap and offered with what inschikken space for the whole family. But while Volkswagen the Beetle ever uglier remained, came to the competition with ever-better cars. Cars with four or even five doors. Cars with the front engine, and therefore, a usable cargo area the spot where the Beetle especially noise is produced. Cars with front wheel drive and a much better road holding. Cars that settled for half as much fuel and still not even slower than the Beetle. Cars like the Renault 4, Citroen 2CV, Opel Kadett and the Ford Escort.

Even Volkswagen’s own Golf and Polo were the Beetle is not well-deserved thanks. Although the production in 1978 in Germany was stopped, were brazilian built Beetles until 1985 through the official channels are sold in Europe. The car that could reasonably be expected in the early 60s, a replacement had to be kept eventually full until well into the new millennium. Incomprehensible.