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Dark Green Super Beetle

Again, you can tell this is a Super Beetle - a 1971, the first year the controversial Type 113 was marketed in the United States - by the bulbous nose.

 

The extra trunk space was created by rpelacing the front torison bar suspension with MacPherson struts, which many VW purists believed denigrated the handling. The Super Beetle could still maintian a steady pace on the road, thanks to a larger engine generating 60 horsepower

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Uploaded on October 12, 2010
Taken on September 19, 2010