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It looks like a Beetle just rear-ended a Neon. Forgive me, but I had wanted to see gory accident photos, I would have chosen another website.
Paint it orange, remove the license plate, put a candle under the hood and paint jac-o-lantern teeth on the bumper…
It’s a good thing it has those large side vents to cool the Beetle’s notoriously massive racing brakes.
@maniceightball
At least its more convincing than that Ford mustang side vents even if its fake.
It looks like Chris Bangle ate a Beetle, then shat it out.
Nevermind.
I like it! :)
People, it’s just a magazine rendering, you can relax. IMO it looks like a more awkward Fiat 500. For VW’s sake, I hope it’s not as “agressive” and whatnot as the magazine suggests. Why cannibalize the Golf when you already have a strong feminine niche?
Ick, looks like either a Fiat 500 or an Alfa Romeo MiTo that’s been front-ended by a bus.
WHY do people buy these hideous things??
Per the accompanying article they want to do line extensions including a pickup. “Dome shape” plus “pickup” ——> European SSR.
Someone help me understand, why do we need both the Bug and the Rabbit/Golf hatchback?
@Horner: Because people with horrible taste need cars, too.
I half expect a clown to pop out of this thing.
The arched roof supports should allow maximum Tokyo sales so as to repel a Godzilla paw when the chap rampages through the city yet again, stomping upon all within sight.
@ ca36gtp:
You mean people with horrible taste and non-existent road manners.
“Cane toads spread to Europe!”
Yes, why does VW persist in this waste of time and money? Why not just produce an awesome, reliable, simple, $10000 car? If they want to shape it like a beetle, whatever. But I bet in 2012 the 3rd-gen beetle will no doubt be over $20000, or $25000 for the drop top. Now that the nostalgia has worn off for most of us, and kids are unaware that the original even existed, what the point of this? A girl’s Rabbit?
What’s the point of still making the New Beetle anyway? Haven’t all the high school cheerleaders who want one bought one already?
Sorry but as a former old-beetle owner and a new-beetle owner, this is ugly.
MrCrumbles :
I half expect a clown to pop out of this thing.
Just one?
BMW325I At least its more convincing than that Ford mustang side vents even if its fake.
thankfully Ford discontiued that starting in 2005
It’s a good thing it has those large side vents to cool the Beetle’s notoriously massive racing brakes.
Now you’re being ridiculous. Those vents for the air cooled engine at the rear.
Oh, wait a minute…
Awww, you guys are funny. I think it’s cute!
That scoop may be ugly, but the tall beltline/DLO is all wrong for this car. The whole point of the Beetle was to have a small car with an airy cabin, not another Chrysler 300-wannabe.
Big thumbs down to that rendering.