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by Philip Powell on May 9, 2007

Rumours abound in the auto industry so the latest - that Volkswagen is going to build a New Beetle that's really a Beetle under the skin - may be just so much talk. Still, I hope it's true, for I spent several years driving rear-engine VW's and Porsches (and Corvairs) and grew to enjoy oversteer; if I were a young guy today I'd probably be into drifting. Anyway, the story goes that VW is working on a new entry-level car that will have the engine out back, or at least over the rear axle. Two powerplants would be offered; a 2-cylinder unit for emerging markets and a direct injected, turbocharged 3-cylinder engine for the rest of us. Ah, but there's more. Apparently the body styles, 2-door hatch and sedan, will be very much in the Beetle idiom. Good news, I say. No doubt everyone will be talking this up at the Michigan Vintage Volkswagen Festival on Sunday May 13, another of Ypsilanti's several car shows this season. They'll be celebrating 50 years of the Karmann-Ghia.
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