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POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Sunday, September 12, 2010 01:08
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Friday, September 10, 2010 9:08 AM

hey, sonisall here i was wondering if you guys could help me find the cheapest beetle in the U.S. i want to buy one but with the limitations of being a kid and a lousy internet searcher i was hoping you could help find one in good/working condition for low money thanks for the help!

http://www.google.com/images?q=new+beetle&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rl
z=1R1MOZA_en___US393&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1400&bih=828

hopeful sonisall

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Friday, September 10, 2010 9:18 AM

CHRISISALL

Son, you gotta get the $$$ first before you go on a serious search.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!

The Stern Chrisisall

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Friday, September 10, 2010 9:20 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

ya ya whatever i find money and search to save time

the young and naive sonisall

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:16 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Chris, I think you need to get SonIsAll his own fff.net account!

Meanwhile, autotrader.com can help you out on finding a cheap New Beetle.

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:46 AM

OPTIMUS1998

remember this as well, the "new Beetle" is discontinued after the 2010 model year.

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I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:52 AM

CHRISISALL

I told Sonisall that for nothing!

GRRRR ARGHHH

The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 1:32 PM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by optimus1998:
remember this as well, the "new Beetle" is discontinued after the 2010 model year.

http://www.teamcoco.com

I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

Well, not so much "discontinued" and "redesigned"...

http://www.automobilemag.com/new_and_future_cars/2009/0806_2009_2010_v
olkswagen_beetle/index.html

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 1:56 PM

OPTIMUS1998

from what i've been reading, The Current New beetle IS discontinued. they should have a NEW Version, or 2 announced by the end of the year, and based on completely different platforms.

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 3:11 PM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by optimus1998:
from what i've been reading, The Current New beetle IS discontinued. they should have a NEW Version, or 2 announced by the end of the year, and based on completely different platforms.

http://www.teamcoco.com

I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

Well, yeah - but only in the sense that the Fox-body Mustang was discontinued, to be replaced by something more modern and quite a bit better. Whenever a car goes through a generational change (usually at around four years of age), it gets "discontinued". It gets replaced with a new design, often on an all-new platform, and very few parts will interchange. The New Beetle is ANCIENT in modern-car terms, having been around without any significant redesign for over a dozen years now. Trust me, it's well beyond due for a make-over.

When you speak of a car model being "discontinued", it tends to be a rather different idea than saying it's been redesigned or re-imagined. The Chevy Camaro, for instance, was discontinued. They killed it, stopped making them, and had no plans to start again. The Pontiac Firebid was also discontinued, and has thus far stayed dead. The Camaro has come back, but it shares not a single bolt with the old Camaro. When they announced the death of the Camaro, nobody was also announcing a new design to start selling within the decade. It was dead and gone as far as GM was concerned. The New Beetle isn't, since they've already announced its redesigned replacement.

Rumors have at least one version going to a rear-engine, rear-drive platform, as with the original Beetle. No sources have it going back to an air-cooled flat-4 engine, though. :)

When Honda killed the CRX, they didn't replace it with anything. It just stayed dead. Now they're selling a hybrid called a "CR-Z", but they aren't fooling anyone. I vaguely resembles what a CRX might look like two decades on, but it isn't a CRX. If they'd called it a CRX, it would indeed be one.

This may seem like quibbling, but I'm a car guy, and when someone says "discontinued" instead of "redesigned", it rankles, because it sends the wrong message. You generally discontinue a car because its sales are shit and everybody hates it. The New Beetle, while being outdated by the better part of a decade now, still finds over 50,000 buyers a year in the U.S.; that's about half the number of people who bought ANY new Buicks in the same time frame. So it's selling as well as one of the brands GM decided NOT to kill...

You redesign a car to reinvigorate it. Sometimes it breathes new life into the model, sometimes it flops (see the '92 Taurus for an example of the latter). Pontiac never redesigned the Aztek, thankfully; they put that one out of our misery, but not before thousands of them had blighted the automotive landscape! ;)

By the way, Iove your avatar! I used that one for a bit, until I found my Bill the Cat version.

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 3:31 PM

WHOZIT

Um... you don't want one.....unless you want to take one apart, dip it in an acid bath, then go on the internet and get a chassie and parts that still come in the box, then find one with all the metric parts to put it together. Good luck with that. Classic cars care a bitch to rebuild, ya better have the money and a web site to work with. Good Luck!!

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 3:49 PM

WHOZIT

I hate to say that rebuilding a classic car is a bitch, but it's a bitch. Have some $ in your pocket if you have plans. I know a guy who's rebuilding a Cuda' with a 273, not cheap. And I told him the 273 is crap! The MOPAR 318 is a great work horse motor, the 273 is crap!! He can sand blast that thing untill he gets cancer!! The rear glass is worth more then that car!

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Saturday, September 11, 2010 6:12 PM

OPTIMUS1998

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Pontiac never redesigned the Aztek, thankfully; they put that one out of our misery, but not before thousands of them had blighted the automotive landscape! ;)

What's Wrong with the Aztek?? I loved the Aztek!
Friend of mine has one. you would be amazed how much furniture you can fit inside of it.

Granted it did have some oil leak issues in the first couple years.
were you one of those that found it ugly?
Front End reminds me of a Capybara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara.

http://www.teamcoco.com

I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

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Sunday, September 12, 2010 12:55 AM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
Um... you don't want one.....unless you want to take one apart, dip it in an acid bath, then go on the internet and get a chassie and parts that still come in the box, then find one with all the metric parts to put it together. Good luck with that. Classic cars care a bitch to rebuild, ya better have the money and a web site to work with. Good Luck!!

Ummmm... Zit? I don't think you're talking about what the rest of us are talking about. SonIsAll is looking at a *NEW BEETLE* - not building a new version of the old Beetle. Different car completely.

This:

Not this:

Also, a 'Cuda with a 273? Blasphemy! Any self-respecting 'Cuda needs a 340 or bigger. A 318 is a fine engine, nothing wrong with it, but a 340 is a legend.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010 1:08 AM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by optimus1998:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Pontiac never redesigned the Aztek, thankfully; they put that one out of our misery, but not before thousands of them had blighted the automotive landscape! ;)

What's Wrong with the Aztek?? I loved the Aztek!
Friend of mine has one. you would be amazed how much furniture you can fit inside of it.

Granted it did have some oil leak issues in the first couple years.
were you one of those that found it ugly?
Front End reminds me of a Capybara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara.

http://www.teamcoco.com

I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

Yeah, I was one of the ones who found it BEYOND ugly. I remarked at the time that it was the only vehicle ever rejected by the military based solely on its looks. Its proportions were all wrong, the front end didn't match the rest of the car, the back end didn't match the rest of the universe; it had a look that told passers-by, "Look! I built it in my own garage!"

But I did like how, a couple years in, they added a small spoiler at the ass end to give it a little flair. ;)

Yes, it can hold a lot of stuff. So can a van. Form should follow function. If you're looking for a big box to stuff all your shit in, buy a big box to stuff all your shit in. A Pontiac Montana comes to mind. Or a GMC Savanna. They aren't pretty, but they look like exactly what they are: shit-haulers. And they don't compromise that mission by trying to add a "fastback" profile in a vain effort to sport things up.

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