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>Subject: !non-vanagon content : poll: would you buy a new beetle?

i dig the new beetle. and seeing as how i can't import
a bus from south africa,i want me a new bug.

some say it's too girly... but i don't care..

am i the only one secure enough in my manhood to go an
by a new bug. (turbo variation, of course..)..

-John
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John,

I have two of them.  One for me and one for my wife.  We both love them. 
They handle like a sport car and driving them on a mountain road is a lot
of fun and we don't even have the turbo.  The only problems so far after
around 20 k miles is that a lot of the plastic interior buttons keep
breaking.  This appears to be the case with most VWs.  Owners of Jettas and
Passats complain of the same issues with the interior plastic items.
As for the manhood thing that depends I guess on where you live.  Here in
California they are cool cars.  In Texas they may be viewed as girly.

Sorin