Leon wrote:
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Leon wrote:
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I bought the VW's on their past reputation.

The "Volkswagen", the original design, is what I was talking about.
Not the price point engineered models they started making to woo and
placate the American consumer with the junk they prefer.

Exactly!

With regard to the "price point engineered models", those were not any
cheaper to produce than the original Beetle--the reason they exist is that
it was impossible to make the Beetle meet US emission and safety regulations
without a major redesign (it was designed in 1936, remember--by the '60s it
had already had a really good run). And the Beetle itself had been "price
point engineered" from the outset.