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Article: Volkswagen Beetle Reaches End of Line.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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By Donald I. Hammonds, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 1--Volkswagen Beetle, the little car with the big bug-eyed headlights and a look that only a mother could love, is no more.
Production of the subcompact car that con...uered the world stopped shortly after 9 Wednesday morning at the last place where they were manufactured, a plant in Puebla, Mexico, about an hour's drive south of Mexico City. It's next door to another facility that produces the model that, to most eyes, is its natural successor -- the New Beetle.
The last traditional VW Bug -- No. 21,529,464th to be exact -- was an A...uarius blue 1600 ...