It was typical of the hip, irreverent advertising that gave the Beetle its counterculture appeal.
Together, they push the Beetle, down this street, up that street, into and out of potholes.
The hypothesis is that this behaviour marks the moment the beetle takes its bearings.
As in all VW's of recent vintage, the Beetle's interior trim lacks a certain richness and solidity.
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In Massachusetts, surveying found five infested trees within a two-mile radius of where the beetle turned up in Dalton.
This makes the Beetle central to the carmaker's ambitions to revive the Volkswagen brand's position in the US market.
After it sent on sale in late July, the Beetle TDI sold 107 units in the U.S. market in August.
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Now me, if I were making the Beetle manlier, I'd have done something totally unorthodox, like make it insanely fast.
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Some men seem to think the Beetle Convertible a tad fey (women almost universally love the thing, by the way).
Officials are also hoping to educate people not to transport firewood to other counties, a common method of spreading the beetle.
The Puebla plant currently produces the Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Jetta and Jetta SportWagen at a rate of 604, 000 vehicles per year.
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Precious urban trees are having to be felled to contain the beetle.
The beetle is now established in Alberta, despite vigorous cutting and burning.
Cold winters and forest fires normally keep the beetle populations in check.
"The Beetle is about more than volume and economics, " Mr Browning says.
We remember VW as the maker of the Beetle, that great low-priced car designed even before World War II, and later the small Golf, Europe's bestseller.
Vaguely reminiscent of the original's dash design, the Beetle deploys a body-colored plastic fascia on the dash and doors, matching a surround piece on the steering wheel.
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Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Ed Lambert said allowing Berkshire County wood to be shipped statewide would have made the beetle far more difficult to contain.
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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"The Beetle is one of the most loved cars in the automotive arena, " he says - so the latest convertible Bug has a marketing job to do.
We remember VW as the maker of the Beetle, that great low-priced car that was designed even before World War II, and later the small Golf, Europe's bestseller.
The beetle is already destroying trees in the United States.
The 2.0-liter engine in the Beetle is the same unit you can find in the Golf and Jetta, a torquey turbo that produces 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of torque.
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Many stories are told about the Beetle's homely streamlining.
Torque steer (the tendency of front-wheel drive cars to pull to the side upon acceleration) is a problem with the Beetle, especially when you have a heavy right foot like I do.
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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.
Dr Hugh Evans, a senior entymologist at the commission's Alice Holt Research Centre near Farnham in Surrey, says that if the beetle becomes dispersed throughout the country it could prove almost impossible to eradicate.
The stress on the trees causes them to emit a chemical that draws the beetle, hopefully clustering the insects in an area and making it easier to destroy their eggs before they become adults.
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