I kind of agree, by the 70's at least there were other far superior cars available to the average man.
Had I been in a VW dealer in the mid 70's, would I have bought a Beetle? Would I heck. I'd have plumped for a far better Polo. Either in Blue or that lovely shade of lime green.
I dont know why we (people on the forum) are getting so hepped up about peoples opinions about the car they like?
54 Gertie wrote:
In the late '70s, at the age of 17 my father took me out to get my first car. It was precisely because there were such truly awful cars as the
Allegro, Polo and
Mini on offer that we went for the far superior 'built like a tank feel' Beetle. We bought a 1972 twin-port Marathon 1300 Beetle, the acceleration and performance of this low-mileage car was pretty good, infact Dad drove it on motorway business trips leaving his new and dreadful
Austin Princess – which really was a car he wished he'd never bought – at home in the garage.8)
The
Polo was a miserable, gutless, wretched dull-looking, wafer-thin, flimsy excuse for a car, not even nearly as good as the Beetle's replacement – the
Golf, although this still a boring box nonetheless, until the GTI came out. Today's
Polo, like most cars now. are so much better than the general rubbish that was on offer in the 1970's. 😶
I love Beetles, I cant see a time in my life when I wont own one, but the fact he doesn't like them is up to him. They are noisy, clattery, harsh, gutless sacks of s**t!
I'm still amazed that when they arrived in the UK in '53, that anyone bought them…
54 Gertie wrote:
Lost me with this part, why on earth are you involved with them. They sold well here in the '50s because we were producing abslolutely awful unreliable rubbish as well as trying to catch up on production after the war. The Beetle had a 4 speed box, a heater and rarely broke down. The Ford in the same buyer market had 3 speed no heater, one wiper and not even direction signals on the base model. The
Minor was prehistoric with its cart springs, poor construction, design and dreadful performance.:thumbdn:
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Rattletrap – the Volkswagen Beetle that has covered an incredible mileage equivalent to over 35 times around the planet :omg:
Running nifty since 1950… the King of Volkswagens:beer: Why not make friends with this famous little VW – he's on facebook! :d
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