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the Bugs were serving as Taxi's.

You're right that the car costs VW very little, but then again it's sold
for very little.  It was always good enough, and had it's core buyers and
VW knew they weren't going to recruit new buyers no matter what they did.
 If you look at the changes over the years, the car is pretty much what
it was when ole Adolf gave it his blessing, and VW has not spent much to
improve or upgrade it over the years.  If you look close at the pictures
of the Mexican stamping plant, they're still using a couple of Krupp
machines and stamps from the late 1940's.

I'm a convertible Karmann Ghia man when it comes to the old VW's, no love
loss for the Beetle.

Like an old dog that's had a good run, but has lived too long to have a
decent quality of life, putting the ole Herbie to bed is long overdue.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/

Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> writes:

> While not Audi related, it's in the family.  All these years, VW has
> been still making the "old" Beetle at a Mexican plant which also
> makes the "new" Beetle.  VW has announced that sometime this year,
> they will stop making the original Beetle.
>
> Last year's sales were "less than 30,000 units".  VW seems to feel
> that's measly- but AoA just recently matched that # in sales to
> date
> this year; doing half the sales with one antique model compared to
> the company's US luxury branch isn't too shabby.
>
>    I can't believe the operation was a money loser- not like
> they've had to re-tool the place with each new model year, I doubt
there
> was much if anything in the way of marketing, and so on- talk about
> your low budget operation.
>
> Kinda sad...

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