Thread 28640255

Why aren't these things more popular?

what's the appeal?
just seem to be a slightly better looking Beetle. still a Beetle.

They are very popular? They are just rare. Same with squarebacks.

>>28640255 (OP)
yeah idk its so weird this hideous underpowered shitbox that sells for way too much idk why no one would want one in a country where v8 sports cars cost half its truly shocking

>>28640296
That sure sounded like coping.

>>28640296
You don't buy an old car because it performs well.

>>28640331
Dont worry, this shotbox doesnt look good and has 0 cool factor as well

>>28640367
Looks pretty interesting and cool to me.

>>28640255 (OP)
Limited numbers so the survivors are collector pieces.

They weren't very performant cars new, but they're like other classic aircooled VWs extremely easy to repair in the field which is the real key to VWs global success. Engine swaps are so quick and easy it was common to have contests at rallys.

They're fun Sunday rides, but like old British sports cars obsolete in every way but as art. They're easy to hop up and engine parts are plentiful. They're ideal for learning to wrench.

Rear engines like that one went away because aircooled VWs were utter deathtraps, but when everything was a deathtrap that wasn't a big deal.

Type 3. Because wagons are best.

>>28640331
>You don't buy an old car
Correct.

>>28640255 (OP)
>good looking
>slow AF

I don't know, I've seen some pretty awesome ones Then I go to a lot of VW shows, what I've seen...

It's interesting to me how the same designer/design firm made the same body style half a dozen times. Always looked like the cousin of the Volvo P1800. And maybe an old Rolls Royce with those whiskers and haunches.

Who didn't/doesn't like them? They're iconic

>>28640255 (OP)
i got the hazard light switch for one of these to wire up in my car that didn't come with them from the factory

>>28640255 (OP)
Disastrously slow, and ~all of them have a snoot dent because all of them were bought by women when new.
But really yeah you have a point. 2 door, beautiful like those early porsches, and simple, yet cheaper than a shitbug. Might buy one now.

>>28640255 (OP)
Underpowered and rattly air-cooled boxer engine sounds awful.
The plus is the bodywork and styling, no doubt.
Good candidate for an engine swap, but I'd rather have a Volvo P1800 if going for that style.

>>28640255 (OP)
Literally a Beetle with a body kit.

There have been plenty of rear engined cars, most of the mass market ones are still sold for cheap. 911 are the exception, and to some degree it's a rather recent event, you were able to buy air cooled ones for like 1/4 of today's price not long ago.
Personally I think something like the Fiat 850 is more interesting. A 2 meter wheelbase (<80 inches) is just nuts.

I always wondered if they got the front grille things from the Porsche 356.

>>28644863
>a few simple mods

>>28644974
HE ATE THE LAST FUCKING OREO

>>28640255 (OP)
i just automatically assume that any car older than 1995 is gonna ride like complete shit, even if i bought a new suspension
dash is more limited
always needs new seats
power steering is a mb

>>28646038
Wow, what a prissy fag.

>>28647857
HUEHUEHUE

>>28647879
What? You've never seen a VW SP2 before?

>>28640455
Why are fags espousing a hatred of classic cars now on this board. Last I checked this board was for people that like cars. Is dead internet theory real. Are we just talking to bots? /o/ on its last legs truly

>>28650068
BRBRBRBR

>>28646361

hes 443 pounds give him a break

>>28650101
You got them in every group, people that claim to be a fan but show little or no love for the classics. Anime fans call them tourists, don't know what you'd call those that hate classics. I like older VWs as they're much easier to maintain, provided you can get the parts needed.

My mother in law had one back in the day that she still talks about, but it’s always “that car was so cute but so unreliable”
She says the old horns still make her jump bc her father would take the car and he would honk on his way into the driveway and that’s how she knew he was back from drinking to beat her and her siblings up

>>28640255 (OP)
Not many of them out there, the ones for sale are ridiculously expensive compared to any other aircooled VW, and people don't wanna risk having to do bodywork in them. Personally I've always wanted a Karmann Ghia TC, it kinda looks like a Porsche 911 rebadged as a VW

>>28641324
Id rather have the rusty Thing next to it.

>>28651509
>pic
Munising MI?

>>28650101
>Are we just talking to bots?
The data breach showed more than half of posts on this site are from bots.
The majority of the other half are Israeli IP#s.

>>28652316
Nah. these are from the Bug Infestation in Geneva Oh, lots of old and new German cars always showing up.

>>28652671
L'chaim!
*drinks child blood*

for me, it's these niggas

>>28652986
Oh Christ, you retards actually bought New Beetles? So that's where they all went.

>>28652671
>he saw a screengrab on /pol/ and took it at face value
the real problem is that 95% of the posts on this site are made by abject retards

>>28653022
Yeah, seen those at Bug Infestation and Jim's Custom VW car shows as well.

>>28653288
Wait until you see what some one did with one.

>>28653022
VW should do a new one based on the current gen Jetta, just for shits and giggles

>>28640296
>1600cc engine swap

>>28654400
thats pretty gay and cool at the same time. vw probably would have sold more if they made a ute version

>>28655359
Oh interesting you say that, because they're rare but a Golf Country 4x4 are out there.

>>28640255 (OP)
They're cool and all, but I guess they look nice only while kept in mint condition. Imagine doing any bodywork on these, there are no separate panels. Once it's fucked, that's the end of it.

>>28651528
>Personally I've always wanted a Karmann Ghia TC, it kinda looks like a Porsche 911 rebadged as a VW
same

>>28644983
kek