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Omalleh	Posted: Nov 5 2009, 06:26 PM
Fire up the Scirocco! Group: Members Posts: 95 Member No.: 2,078 Joined: 18-December 08	Saw this: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/04/they-st...after-25-years/ Discuss. --------------------

S.Wheels	Posted: Nov 7 2009, 01:20 PM
I'm a Laaydie!!!!!! Group: Members Posts: 2,926 Member No.: 331 Joined: 18-July 06	What a shame have to say I forgot they were still making them in SA Hope the same doesnt happen for the beetle in Mexico --------------------

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Posted: Nov 7 2009, 04:38 PM

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Too late... it stopped in 2003!

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By 2003 Beetle annual production had fallen to 30,000 from a peak of 1.3 million in 1971. On 30 July 2003,[2] the final original VW Beetle (No. 21,529,464) was produced at Puebla, Mexico, some 65 years after its original launch, and an unprecedented 65-year production run since 1938, the year VW recognizes as the first year of non-Nazi funded production. VW announced this step in June, citing decreasing demand. The last car was immediately shipped off to the company's museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. In true Mexican fashion, a mariachi band serenaded the last car. In Mexico, there was also an advertising campaign as a goodbye for the Beetle. For example, in one of the ads was a very small parking space on the street, and many big cars tried to park in it, but could not. After a while, a sign appears in that parking space saying: "Es increíble que un auto tan pequeño deje un vacío tan grande" (It is incredible that a car so small can leave such a large void). Another depicted the rear end of a 1954 Beetle (year in which Volkswagen first established in Mexico) in the left side of the ad, reading "Había una vez..." (Once upon a time...) and the last 2003 Beetle in the right side, reading "Fin" (The end). There were other ads with the same nostalgic tone.[21]

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S.Wheels	Posted: Nov 7 2009, 07:52 PM
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