Talk:Volkswagen New Beetle

Request for addition/revision (Identifying model year by looking at car)
I don't know enough to contribute on this article. Consider a section on exterior differences by model year. How can one tell which year the car is without looking at the VIN? If you do so, how about some comments about the rear of the car by model year?


 * You can always add what you know and hope others will add what they know. By the way, please sign your comments. --206.79.158.100 (talk) 23:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Spoilers & Wings
Related to the above, we need to at least mention the various spoilers and wings. Ideally we should have drag coefficient and drag area of each configuration. --Treekids (talk) 01:41, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

New Beetle's New Design
How should the New Beetle's updated design be incorporated in the article? -vw12 01:13, 7 November 2005 (PST)

2006 Beetle
The information on the 2006 Beetle (2.5L V5) is only relevant in the US. In the UK, for example, a 2.3L V5 engine has been available for years, while in Australia, the 2006 Beetle continues with a choice of 1.6L or 2.0L engines, without any V5 options. Davez621 10:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

One missing!
You guys forgot a model that came late 2002: the Volkswagen New Beetle Turbo S, as I believe, is rated at 180bhp. It was there until 2005, and no word on its return. --D.F. "Jun Kazama Master" Williams 17:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia will be better when all the people who say "you" start thinking "we" instead. Wikipedia articles are built by people like us. --206.79.158.100 (talk) 23:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Say what?
The article says "(it was said to use 248-V)". Huh? Trekphiler 09:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Squash that Beetle
Can anybody comment on hostility within VW management, because it was too retro? I've heard Hochmut Vargas (?) had to hide US$300000 in Audi's budget for the development. Confirm & add, somebody? Trekphiler 09:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Trivia
Is that mention really useful: « The New Beetle Was Featured In Bewitched The Movie. It was a silver convertable. » ? Notice the mistake in last word and the mistake in the color (see it here) There are many movies where that car was used/featured, and some in a more obvious product placement. Antp 18:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Pop-culture
Doesn't Kamen Rider Den-O count as a VW Sighting? It has been in numerous episodes.


 * please sign your comments --206.79.158.100 (talk) 23:14, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Why call it a "New" Beetle?
Normally, car generations last around five to seven years. This outdated car has been around for about ten years. Why is it still called The "New" Beetle? Does VW hope to produce this car for as long as the last generation while still calling it "New"? Rb26dett —Preceding comment was added at 22:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Because they don't want the beetle brand to always be feminine maybe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.45.129.69 (talk) 23:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

This is not really discussion related to the article; it is a simple fact that Volkswagen decided to call it the New Beetle from the 1999-2011 model years. For the 2012 redesign, they have officially dropped the "New" and have resumed calling it simply the "Beetle". Dave L (talk) 01:46, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

New Beetle Hot Wheels
There's also another special edition called "Beetle Hot Wheels" that was manufactured with the help of Hot Wheels. Maybe you should also include it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alonso dz (talk • contribs) 17:10, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Popular culture article split
I suggested the pop culture trivia section be split into its own article. Granted, as it is, a few items can be removed, because not each and every single appearance on TV or in a movie is noteworthy. I suggested Volkswagen Beetle in popular culture because it could possibly be merged with the Volkswagen Beetle's pop culture/trivia. --Vossanova o&lt; 20:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

More missing pop culture
We forgot to mention the Gadget-mobile flirting with a New Beetle from/in one of the live action Inspector Gadget movies. Is anyone interested in researching this? I might, if I can remember and find time. MaxyDawg (talk) 02:30, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Concept 1 or Concept One?
I've seen both variations in various places, but I'm having trouble finding authoritative sources to find out which one was used officially by VW. Any pointers? Letdorf (talk) 12:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC).

Second Generation
Since the current second generation section was full of speculation and patchy information, I've taken the liberty of rewriting the section in order to bring forward information which has recently surfaced in conjunction with sightings of a test mule. Feel free to add or modify at will, but I believe it's important to avoid speculation, such as "The Second generation /could/ be equipped with...", something the previous contributions to the section was filled with.

But then again nobody is visiting this page, doubt anyone will notice. :P —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.88.39 (talk) 21:22, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

I have seen with my own two eyes models of the second gen in both europe and the USA that have WVW VINs, this indicates German production. Admittedly the one that I saw in Austria at Wörthersee Treffen was the Turbo Black edition, so it could be just a preview model meant for the US market just being shown off at the Treffen and slated to go into a musuem, the model that I saw in the USA was a sales floor model that will be in someone's garage very shortly. I don't doubt that Puebla will pick up production at some point, but they may not be tooled up for it at this point, VW often does this with new models (Golf 4 saw the same thing, early German prod, then switching off to Brazil). I will give a photo that I took of the Turbo Black to Wikimedia and add it in shortly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucaq (talk • contribs) 16:53, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

2.5L 5-cylinder engine for the US
It seems that the 2.5L 5-cylinder engine is going to be the base engine for the second generation in the US. Can anybody confirm this? 148.206.91.171 (talk) 15:48, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

It appears you are correct: http://www.vw.com/en/models/beetle/trims-specs.html Dave L (talk) 00:27, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Incorporation into the original Volkswagen Beetle page
I believe that this entire page should be incorporated into the original Volkswagen Beetle page. Yes, they are different cars but they are not "unrelated" like it says at the top of the original Volkswagen Beetle page. By the existing school of thought, the wiki page for the Ford Thunderbird produced up to 1997 should be separate from the redesigned model produced from 2002 through 2005. Instead, (in my opinion, appropriately) the Thunderbird page simply shows the 2002-2005 model as the eleventh generation. --Svtdave87 (talk) 21:20, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The original article being quite large, and the new one being a large stub, I think they should not be merged. Give some time to the second, or create an introductory page relating all three generations, but do not merge the last two. There are only three generations, not eleven, with no detailed article, so the case is very different from the Thunderbird. Fabriced28 (talk) 11:52, 5 March 2012 (UTC)