The largest ever, caught off Nova Scotia, weighed 1, 496 pounds, half the weight of a Volkswagen Beetle.
The piece is a disassembled 1976 Volkswagen Beetle that appears to be exploding in midair.
But an old green Volkswagen Beetle inches past the plaza, a loudspeaker roaring scratchily from its roof.
Others, like the Volkswagen Beetle, which was killed in part by safety regulations, are resurrected after many dormant years.
Ranging in size from a wastepaper basket to a Volkswagen Beetle, its contraptions, known as feeders, weigh and distribute ingredients.
But come the weekend, general surgeon Dr. MV Shamsundar indulges in a far more relaxing pastime: driving his beloved Volkswagen Beetle.
It worked for rival retailer BuyComp.com, which generated 100, 000 clicks a month during a recent promotion to give away a Volkswagen Beetle.
Whereas traditional car rental companies choose standard cars in the dullest colors of the rainbow, the first Zipcar was a tricked-out lime-green Volkswagen Beetle.
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Another commercial featured a slimmed-down dog chasing after a Volkswagen Beetle.
The 10 Best Interiors of 2012 award winners include the subcompact Chevrolet Sonic and Hyundai Accent, the compact Dodge Dart sedan, Volkswagen Beetle coupe and Mazda CX-5 crossover.
It is generally agreed that we are currently in a kind of design renaissance, spurred by the Volkswagen Beetle and the Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) iMac.
New vehicles for 2012 include chic budget-minded models like the Chevrolet Sonic and Fiat 500, distinctively designed cars like the Hyundai Veloster and Volkswagen Beetle and upscale entries including the Buick Verano and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque.
They lived at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, kept up on work in Jordan via e-mail, spun around in a Volkswagen Beetle, browsed in bookstores, walked in nearby woods and watched Canada geese settling down for autumn nights.
Last year, it sent a letter to a Wisconsin priest who had put "God Squad" in a logo reminiscent of the Geek Squad's on the side of his Volkswagen beetle, the same kind of car driven by Best Buy's repairmen.
If the pattern of public opinion in general is bell-shaped, that of religious belief has the profile of a Volkswagen Beetle: a bump of evangelical Protestants at the front, a bigger bulge of uncensorious congregations in the middle and a stubby secular tail.
Just ask Chicagoans Liz McCorry and Phil Koesterer, who found themselves perplexed at the prospect of replacing their Volkswagen New Beetle for a more accommodating ride with a child on the way.
An Indian car may soon earn a parking place in history alongside Ford's Model T, Volkswagen's Beetle and the British Motor Corp.
Volkswagen sells the Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Eos, Golf, Golf R, GTI, Jetta, Jetta SportWagen, Passat, CC, Tiguan, Touareg and Routan vehicles through approximately 600 independent U.S. dealers.
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Carmakers have overhauled old designs for the modern era: Volkswagen's New Beetle and the new Fiat 500 are obvious examples.
To revitalise Ford's floundering design department, Mr Nasser turned to a young outsider, J Mays, who designed the wacky new Beetle for Volkswagen.
Moving between the worlds of architecture and graphics, Rizzi also designed the Happy Rizzi House - an office building in Germany, the front page of a newspaper in Hamburg and three versions of the New Beetle for Volkswagen in 1999.
It was interesting to note, for example, that while Volkswagen made its 2012 Beetle six inches longer and three inches wider than the former model (and, yes, touted these numbers), the company kept top of mind that this is the car that started its life in America as the hippie vehicle of choice.
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Volkswagen's third-generation Beetle set out to address this with a more masculine design that has now been launched as a convertible too at the Los Angeles motor show.
Overall, the machine sports a retro-futuristic look sure to appeal to Generation X fans of the Jetsons--the same crowd that brought back bell-bottoms and fell in love with Volkswagen's recent update of the Beetle.
This makes the Beetle central to the carmaker's ambitions to revive the Volkswagen brand's position in the US market.
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