VW finally gets it's corporate head out of it's nostalgic ass, wakes up, and smells the coffee. Too bad it took so damn long and that we had to suffer through the heralded "return" of the ugly little shitbox.
THE ICONIC Volkswagen Beetle, the most popular car ever made, will cease production this summer, 69 years and more than 21 million sales after Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich first commissioned the durable, dome-shaped little “People’s Car.”
Volkswagen officials said earlier this month that the last Beetle assembly line in the world, in VW’s massive plant here in central Mexico, will shut in the coming weeks. They said sales had fallen dramatically because the $6,800 workhorse could no longer compete with slick little imported Fords and Chevys that are priced nearly the same but offer four doors, air conditioning and engines that don’t sound like can openers in distress.
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