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Remember when Volkswagen was known for making cheap, dependable and, above all, lovable cars? So does Ann Jones, a Jetta owner from Corona, California. Jones was lured to the Jetta (known as the Bora in Europe) by its stylish looks and solid road handling - easily worth the $18,900 sticker price. But a few months after bringing her new sedan home in 2000, she returned it to the dealership because of a fluid leak. Then a door lock broke. Then a spring popped out of the driver's seat. With 80,000 km on it, her Jetta started to feel...
Their landlords, a Harvard sociology professor and his wife, embrace lifestyles the Bengali couple cannot fathom; they leave their two young daughters, Amber and Clover, home alone without concern, and own a Volkswagen decorated with anti-authoritarian bumper-stickers...
...searing images of tiny corpses on stretchers, screaming toddlers with scorched faces and hysterical parents. Six of the dead were children under 16. MARTYRS! REVENGE! shouted newspaper headlines. On Thursday afternoon on a crowded Gaza City street, five Hellfire missiles launched from Apache helicopter gunships slammed into a white Volkswagen Golf, incinerating Hamas political leader Ismail Abu Shanab and his two bodyguards. Fifteen bystanders were wounded. "Martyrs! Revenge!" shouted thousands of Palestinians as they dipped their hands in Abu Shanab's blood...
DISCONTINUED. The original BEETLE, lovable roadster and iconic artifact of the '60s; 70 years after Hitler commissioned a people's car--in German, Volkswagen. Competition from more modern vehicles pushed Volkswagen to phase out production at the car's last remaining plant, in Puebla, Mexico. The plant will continue to build the redesigned version introduced in the late 1990s...
...Discontinued. The Volkswagen Beetle, automotive brainchild of Adolf Hitler that became the most produced model in the world; in Puebla, Mexico. First built in 1936 in Nazi Germany as an affordable "People's Car," the Beetle was adored for its shape, mechanical simplicity, and?thanks to a rear engine?its performance in snowy conditions. The last Beetle?No. 21,529,464?rolled off an assembly line at Volkswagen's plant in Mexico, where the car sold well and was a mainstay of taxi companies...