...on my dad's pale blue VW bug. Forever soft spot for those little cars.

"Though it hinted that the car could one day be revived."

They'll wait for demand to build, then in a few years bring it back. It's all about the Mighty $$$$$$$$. If the money is there, they will build it. This is purely for PR purposes.

'72 Super Beetle.
I had 2 of of them as a kid...damn near bullet proof and would go anywhere.

in a ‘72 Super Beetle that was my grand dad’s. I loved that car...it was Kansas Beige. It had the original stick shift knob with the castle and fox emblem on it. I still have that knob all these years later in the glove box of my ‘16 Hyundai Santa Fe. It’s good juju and reminds me of my first car and my grandpa. <3

It was a right-hand drive, too ... and my mom and stepdad still own it to this day ... one of their 4 Morgans ...

If ya don't know what a Morgan is, watch the episode of "Comedians Driving In Cars Getting Coffee" ... the one where Jerry gets coffee with some obscure cat named ... Stephen Colbert.

But some of my other training on a stick came courtesy of my bio-dad ... in an Orange BEETLE! Think it was a 75 or 76 ... I recall it had some orange plastic on the taillights so it wasn't a vintage one ...

he traded in a Datsun 240Z for it, which just makes me wonder "why?"

That was my 2nd-ever car, the first was a '73 Malibu/Chevelle 4 door my granny gave me ... it was a hideous yellow color too ... the year Chevelle's went to shit. But I still dug it cause it was a Chevelle. I put a Holley 4 barrel on it, beefy sway bar, gas shocks, some cool rims, and dual exhaust dumped at the rear axle ... despite it being a yellow 4-door ...

Btw, that's the car(and model year) Seinfeld chose for the Zach Galifianakis episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Stopped manufacturing the old style bug. I later found out that you can't bring them into the country, but I always wanted to buy one and drive it back to America just so people would look at it and ask what year it was, I could honestly say, 1998 (or whatever year) to confuse them. We once crammed 12 people into a VW Bug taxi in Mexico City. They remove the passenger seat for easier entrance.

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a six-speed automatic transmission

Then they wonder why real Beetle aficionados don't buy them.

The redesigned-again Mustang and the Charger have been popular among young and old alike.

It was really bare bones. No gas gauge so I had to use the tire iron to see how much fuel was left in the tank. The "heater" only warmed the car when it was moving. There was no fan. It was like a little tank in the snow.