J. Clarke wrote:

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.

Agreed on all counts ... but what superior "price point" engineering!

There was something intrinsically "elegant" about the engineering on the
original Porsche designed VW ... akin to a three line algorithm taking
the place of a thousand lines of code, if you know what I mean.

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