Date:         Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:14:28 -0500
Reply-To:     whayeslip@JUNO.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bill Hayeslip <whayeslip@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: New beetle?
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I have a problem with it being called a beetle. Having owned 3 in my life
(and would buy another if they still made them) I take objection to them
calling a completely different model the same name. Can you Imagine them
sticking a Vanagon name on a Dodge minivan and selling you one?

Bill Hayeslip
88 GL
Pgh., Pa


On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:25:27 -0600 Terry Kay <CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET> writes:
> I can't believe what I have been reading here, on folks bum rapping
> the
> new beetle.
> It is an improved model of the most popular vehicle ever built, and
> no
> one has anything good to say about it?
> It's faster
> It's safer
> It's bigger,
> It's got heat
> It's got A/C
> And it is fun to drive.
> Who said you couldn't take a trip in it, without being butt naked?
> You couldn't take much with you in the original Bugs either! ( Had a
> 69
> sedan, and a 73 Super Beetle rag top.)
> In this new world of the "smaller, the better", I feel that the new
> Bug
> is a good value, and a neat, decent handling vehicle.
>
> Thanks, Ferdinand
>
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