Volkswagen has chosen to launch the 2012 VW Beetle at Shanghai on MTV, followed by MTV Beetle launches in Berlin and New York. It was always quite hard to take the revived VW Beetle seriously. Unlike other recreations of past icons that have worked successfully – the MINI and the Fiat 500 especially – the new VW Beetle always […]
Volvo C30: now starts under £15k
Volvo has cut the entry-level Volvo C30 – the C30 ES 2.0 – to £14,995. A much more encouraging entry point. It’s been all change at Volvo in the last year, with the Swedish car maker going from being the last vestige of Ford’s ill-fated Premier Auto Group to the first high-profile car maker to fall to […]
2012 Volkswagen Beetle Spied
We spy an almost production-ready 2012 Volkswagen Beetle out testing. We could even see the 2012 Beetle debut at the Geneva Motor Show. Yes, the next generation of the ‘New’ VW Beetle us upon us, certainly if the spy shots we’ve got of an almost undisguised 2012 VW Beetle are anything to go by. And […]
2012 VW Beetle confirmed
The next generation Volkswagen Beetle – due in 2012 – will offer more variants from the Eco to the Halo in an effort to emulate the success of MINI and the Fiat 500. To be fair, it’s not as if Volkswagen ever intended dropping the Beetle from its range. But VW’s US boss – Stefan […]