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WE DRIVE THE LAST BEETLE; Or close to the last Beetle, anyway.(News)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
Volkswagen just showed us the fifth-generation Golf at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and it is a real credit to the folks at VW headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. So, too, is the new W12-powered, U.S.-spec Volkswagen Phaeton, about which we will soon write. But even before both of those cars, we drove in San Diego one of the last Volkswagen Beetles ever made, and that was an even bigger credit to Wolfsburg and to Peubla.
AutoWeek reader and car collector Bob Pogee owns an automotive air conditioning business in San Diego (iceac.com). Some of the cars to which he adds air conditioners are those very Mexican-made Beetles. Or at least he did until production stopped June 30 after 21.5 million of them came off the line.
"I just had to get one,'' said Pogee of his Beetle lust.
Actually, he got six, paying the $8,200 sticker price the Ultimo Edition Beetles go for in Mexico.
"I know some guys at the factory,'' he explained.
Of the 21.5 million Beetles made by Volkswagen, only the final 3000 came in what VW de Mexico calls the Ultimo Edition. Ultimo Edition meant chrome bumpers and trim, whitewall tires and a CD player. Otherwise they're not a lot different from the millions of other Beetles still circling the planet.
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