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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (6 children)

NGL if VW made modernized versions of their classic cars (ie: newer interior, classic looking exterior, maybe w/o all the stainless steel) I would be all over it

[–] thatKamGuy 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To borrow Jeremy Clarkson’s joke - VAG do still also make the Porsche 911!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This threw me off for a hot minute. I used to know a guy who went by the nickname "Vag" (with a hard "g"), so when I read this, I thought to myself, "Vag! I wonder how Vag is doing?" But you're talking about VAG, not Vag. Now I'm just trying to cram as much vag as I can into this paragraph. So much vag. Vag vag vag. Thank you.

[–] thatKamGuy 1 points 1 month ago

Hmm, I don’t know… I think it needs more VAG-bell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Mexico still makes the classic beetle. Not sure about the minibus. I see a lot of them, but those may be actual antiques.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They stopped making the original in 2003 and all models in 2019.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well that sucks :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It'd likely be yet another instance of spyware on wheels, tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That looks more like the first SAAB to me than a VW.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Ursaab

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Fuck it VW lets see it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There's a lot of old designs that still look better, or at least more unique then the newer stuff. Hell, even the 1997 version of the Beetle looks pretty good, but the shape became blanderized over time. Every car company is making the same car because they're all designed by community and focus groups.

Hell, what's the deal with the electric Ford Mustang? It's fine on it's own, but it's not even the same body as the gas Mustang of the same year. Why call it a Mustang instead of putting an EV drive train into the actual one?

I wouldn't own one because it doesn't fit my lifestyle, but I know people who would love an aluminum bodied EV Beetle. I'd love an aluminum/EV version of the original DeLorean. The new ones looks too much like genetic super cars.

Much more likely to happen though is I'm going to get an Edison conversion kit for my 80's C10 pickup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They said "classic looking exterior" which the new beetle doesn't have. But problem is, you can't really have that, largely due to safety regulations, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I thought it looks similar, but yeah, it's not direct copy. Still, I really like the look of new beetle.