Rear engine

>Rear engine
>Rear Wheel Drive
>Lightweight
>Cheap parts
>Manual only (until 1961)
>Designed to cruise the Autobahn

Is the Beetle, dare I say it, /ourcar/ ?

It triggers some kikes. So yeah, /ourcar/

>Manual only (until 1961)

You don't deserve to own one.

Oh, i forgot,
>cute twingo-like eyes

VW literally translates to /ourcar/

Pure genius.

shhhh cuz there are the vicious VAGhaters in Veeky Forums

I was surprised how many VWs there were when I took a trip to South America recently, including old beetles and hippie buses. They must really be doing something wrong in the US market.

I think they only recently stopped making the original beetle in south america.

Its typically a neglected market by the other auto companies as the cars need to be vastly cheaper than other markets, so I can see why legacy VWs would be so popular.

Shitloads of tooling available for cheap from wealthier countries, and south americans love germans

There were also a yuge number of these little VW pickemup trucks as well. They looked rather well made and capable of dealing with not always having roads.

Although in that case I can understand why the US truck market would cockblock those out one way or another, similar to the Hilux.

Should I do it? It may not look like an original Beetle but it's much lighter and I would only drive it on summer weekens anyway. Parts are cheap and it has the easiest engine to work on. A friend of mine has a Beetle and he bought a whole new engine for like €300