Volkswagen's Beetle Coming Back With Vengence AND Improved Driving Dynamics

MSN Autos reports:

The Volkswagen Beetle is on its way back, and this time around, it will be focused more on driving dynamics than on efforts to resurrect the past.

Expected to appear in concept form at the Los Angeles Auto Show late this year, the second-generation version of the modern-day Beetle goes on sale in the United States in May 2011. A convertible with a fabric top will follow about a year later.

As with the current Beetle, launched in 1998, the new one will be assembled in Mexico alongside the upcoming sixth-generation Jetta, with which it shares its front-wheel-drive chassis and drivelines...

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izfuney - 4/6/2010 11:58:18 PM

+4 Boost

arrrggghhhh!!!! who stepped on the Beetle ?!!! :(

pcar4evr - 4/7/2010 7:40:37 AM

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Take the cute Bug and make it less cute to get some male's to buy it. Get rid of the egg shape and make it look like some retro-chopped Bug.

Result: Women will think it's ugly and men will still think its gay.

Notjustlex - 4/7/2010 1:37:09 PM

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Just bring back the Karmen ghia and that will hit the spot......

PUGPROUD - 4/7/2010 7:54:00 AM

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Give it 4 wheel drive, 250hp+ and a mean exhaust sound and VW just might get a few men to buy one.

Whelan - 4/7/2010 8:41:04 AM

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Beetle gets the chop top gangster treatment.

upwards - 4/7/2010 8:50:10 AM

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Baby Porsche.

PlanB - 4/7/2010 10:54:43 AM

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One of the few cars I've never ever seen a man driving... seriously.

Whelan - 4/7/2010 1:50:57 PM

+1 Boost

The only Beetle that I would drive as a man.

New Beetle RSi
225hp 3.2L VR6 motor
6 speed manual
4 motion

MSP6 - 4/7/2010 12:53:37 PM

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LOL, it received the Volvo 262C Bertone treatment !

rxh8me9000 - 4/7/2010 1:28:58 PM

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Had to drive a friends 5spd buggy for a whole day because she needed my truck. Most embarassing day ever.I had to drive through the projects and I remember a girl crossing the street who stopped and said " boy,what the hell are you doing in that buggy" and started laughing.It was light blue with the flower vase and all the goodies. :(......On the other hand its really not bad at all driving wise,but I'm pretty sure thats because it was 5spd.