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The technical changes to the reborn Fusca are very interesting to VW dorks like myself, as they add up to what may be the most advanced air-cooled Beetle ever made.
VW Brazil’s designers and engineers had a real knack for re-packaging the basic VW Beetle, which they called them Fusca, because those Portuguese speakers seem to have a different word for ...
Meanwhile in Brazil, where the classic VW Beetle (or VW Fusca, as it is known there) is still hugely popular, designer Eduardo Oliveira offers his take on what he thinks the next-generation punch ...
Volkswagen's Iconic Beetle Roars Into The 21st Century - Web Exclusive. ... Beetle, Käfer, Vocho, Coccinelle, Fusca, Maggiolino or 甲壳虫! In total, 21.5 million cars were sold, ...
The Fusca shown there is a 1982 Fusca 1300GL — a slightly upmarket Beetle made in Brazil to compete with some of the much more modern cars coming out in the 1980s like the Fiat 147.
Volkswagen Beetle "RWB Targa" Is an Affordable 911 Race Car Rendering. ... where the Beetle was called the Fusca and stayed in production for much longer than anywhere else in the world.
Volkswagen revealed it is involved with the eKäfer project, which uses the e-up! battery system and even gets the Beetle a proper trunk.
Last year VW sold only 15,166, according to Autodata Corp. Vintage Beetles can command large sums, with Classic VW Bugs' Chris Vallone telling CBS This Morning that an old Beetle from the 1950s ...
The once hugely popular design is at serious risk of extinction. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the ...
VW is ending the long run of the Beetle, as consumers switch preferences to SUVs and crossovers. The car was in production, in various forms, for 80 years. A few years back, I tested an offbeat ...