BMW, Porsche and others have outsourced production of an entire vehicle to a manufacturer like Magna or Karmann.

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We think that's odd, because the old Super Beetle Cabriolet and especially the Karmann Ghia did not suffer a macho backlash.

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He hardly knows them, he said, but he knows what it's like for a family to take on a project: When he was in high school, he rebuilt a 1968 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia with his dad.

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