#206733 - 05/24/05 12:11 PM
Saw something real ugly last night
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Driving to the grocery store I saw a new VW Beetle with a ram hood. WTF?!
Not only was it hideous, but I fail to see how you can "ram" air into the vents on a circular hood.
It was just all wrong. Wish I had my camera with me.
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#206734 - 05/24/05 12:17 PM
Re: Saw something real ugly last night
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Do the new beetles an engine in the front? Or like the older ones from the 70's, rear engine?
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#206735 - 05/24/05 12:25 PM
Re: Saw something real ugly last night
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New Beetles are built on the Golf platform. Forward engine.
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#206736 - 05/24/05 12:51 PM
Re: Saw something real ugly last night
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Originally posted by UMfan:
Driving to the grocery store I saw a new VW Beetle with a ram hood. WTF?!  No comment....
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#206737 - 05/24/05 01:50 PM
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Click if you\'re a masochist! Good thing it wasn't both, right?  Apparently there are a couple of places that sell CAIs for VW Beetles for .. quite alot. Almost three hundred dollars.
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#206738 - 05/24/05 01:57 PM
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I am a masochist and I clicked! 
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#206739 - 05/24/05 02:41 PM
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Wish I could find an online pic of the hood I saw. The vents were so big it was kind of like a cartoonish raptor hood off a trans am.
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#206740 - 05/24/05 04:56 PM
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They may have had WS6 scoops molded in. Eh?
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#206741 - 06/01/05 09:02 AM
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Having CAI is ok. It could add 4 HP. Ram hood is ok as long as it is conservative.
If it is huge, unpainted and doesn’t go with the contour of the car then
boooooo!!!
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#206742 - 06/01/05 01:05 PM
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Well my wife, at last, is about to buy a car, and everythings points on a VW Beetle...i tried to convince her about a gogeous GTP, but as you know my car hasn't been so nice lately so i don't have good arguments...
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#206743 - 06/01/05 01:12 PM
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Hhmmm... a VW Beetle in Mexico???? No me digas!!!
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#206744 - 06/01/05 04:25 PM
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yes, and you should go around Puebla, which is a state where is one of te biggest VW factories in the world, is VW Town, crowded with Beetles, Boras, Jettas, Golfs. By the way we just call beetles those from 98-05, before that is "vochito" 
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#206745 - 06/01/05 04:29 PM
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Originally posted by Alex: yes, and you should go around Puebla, which is a state where is one of te biggest VW factories in the world, is VW Town, crowded with Beetles, Boras, Jettas, Golfs.
By the way we just call beetles those from 98-05, before that is "vochito" I did a google search for vochito and found this: http://www.terra.com.mx/galeria_de_fotos/images/41/081164.jpg Thank you for making my day Alex.
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#206746 - 06/01/05 04:39 PM
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Can you say Photoshopped??? Still funny...
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#206747 - 06/01/05 05:25 PM
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Well this could be photoshopped, but, there are a lot of clubes for "vochito" VW sedan, around the world, and they make a lot of modds to this car http://www.vochoclub.com/fotos/index.php?cs=fot&cs1=mod
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