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- The world needs order, okay peace,
a little bit of justice.
I think I spit on my chin there.
A little bit more wheels, tires and suspension okay
for their aftermarket build out there right now okay.
The world's gonna be okay seriously.
People are acting a little bit weird.
Peace.
People are still freaking out
about that single-plight toilet paper
like it's not gonna disappoint you at a 10p.m Taco Bell run.
Dakota I'm looking at you buddy.
- Just buy your normal amount you'll be all right, Jesus.
I'm just gonna start using socks.
- Either way there's been a car out there
that has legitimately never aged.
It's like the damn like fountain of youth
for the car scene.
A car that's been around longer than most cars
and still gets more love and praise than pretty much
anything else out there.
Which when you actually think about it
is kinda weird considering just what it is, all right.
It's just, it's cookey little thing.
Okay I'm Alex, Alex.fi on Instagram
and today ladies and gentlemen we're gonna be talking
about the car that is like the Jennifer Aniston of cars.
Okay the Brad Pitt if you will of the car scene.
The car that does just about
anything you could possibly imagine
and could be for anyone at any period of time
in their life for any possible thing ever,
because it's just that car.
Ladies and gentlemen we're gonna be talking about
you wanting to own a Volkswagen Beetle.
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Taking it back to 1938, Adolf Hit...
Are we, are we sure we wanna?
Super sure?
Oh.
Okay.
Okay so, Adolf Hitler
wanted to make a people's car
that was mass produced for the country's new road network
that was in the country okay.
This was put together by a lead engineer Ferdinand Porsche.
All right you see there's the connection.
You can make the jokes if you want to
but they're not the same thing.
You see there, it was just a,
back them there was like five people
that could actually do it.
Anyway, Ferdinand Porsche made a good chunk
of the initial design, but Bela Barenyi, I said that wrong,
was credited with the original design.
Which wad actually by Mercedes Benz
on the original technical drawing.
And if you go back there there's actually a good old battle
between Mercedes Benz and Porsche and Volkswagen
and all of those companies and said
who actually coined the initial design.
But according to the sources it is Mercedes Benz.
People be fighting over intellectual property rights
is hilarious and almost kind of funny because
it's like mom and dad are fighting
so we're just gonna stay out of it.
Even though the production was claimed to be started
in 1938, we really wouldn't see those beautiful little bugs
with the soft headlights be produced until the late 40s.
Apparently something happened back then in 1940s
that caused a little bit of a delay
in the supply chain management in Germany.
Couldn't imagine what.
But after world war two the people's car was left
in a little bit of a disarray,
and while the vehicle was being produced
it was never being produced
for it's original intention.
It was made into like a military vehicle and this and that,
but everything besides like a normal Joe car.
I don't know what to tell you.
America gave the British the control
of the Volkswagen factory after world war two
to dismantle the production of it and move it to Britain.
'Cause Britain makes fantastic cars
they don't have any reliability issues at all,
or just make cars that just don't make sense.
But I quote,
British didn't want (beep) okay.
I'm literally just taking this risk
just straight out of the expert.
The official report included the phrases like,
the vehicle does not meet the fundament...
Wait how do British people talk?
I'm not even gonna try 'cause I'm so bad at it.
The vehicle does not meet the fundamental
technical requirements of a motor car.
It is quite unattractive to the average buyer.
To the car commercially
it would be a complete uneconomic enterprise.
I feel like there might be a little bit of anger
of Britain towards Germany just as a whole
when that statement was made.
But I feel like it was a little rough, a little mean.
Not a lot of I statements there.
The restart of the car was inherently tough
I mean imagine being responsible for that restart
and you walk into the factory, that is the only factory
that you can essentially make the vehicle in
and there's a bomb in there that didn't go off.
That actually happened.
The Beetle would continue on though
with the newfound leadership and control in the production
of this little guy.
I mean they had to do something with it
and they had to dismantle it and turn it into
something that could make money.
The car was inherently when it finally got produced
a car for everyone.
There was different variant sizes and all sorts of trends
that started to grow into the world like a dandelion.
The little Beetle would cause other manufacturers
like GM, to try their own hand
at an air-cooled rear engine car.
The people's car was successful in all senses of the word
even with it's tough upbringing it was cheap,
it was affordable, those were the same thing.
It was reliable, it was easy to work on,
everything you could possible imagine,
anybody could jump into the car
and with the fact that It was essentially
Germany's car even way back
before they started mass producing it,
it was built into the government stipend
for citizens to purchase.
So you could get it for a really good deal.
The car would go up and down though in terms
of love throughout the decades.
The car would get new competition, there'd be new models
would pop up, and even in it's own company,
they'd be making cars that would ultimately compete
with the good old Beetle,
even though people and other sources say that it didn't,
it definitely did, because there's no way it didn't.
You had cars like the Golf and things like that
coming into the fray.
Where the Beetle just didn't have the same luxuries
as it's bigger brother.
The last Type-one Beetle would roll off the line
in Puebla Mexico in July of 2003.
Which were white wall tires, beautiful looking things
and they called them the Ultima Edicion.
Uh-huh.
That was French and Spanish.
I just need to stay away from this.
But by 2002,
there were over 21 million Volkswagen Beetle produced.
Which was absolutely insane
and was one of the biggest cars produced in the world.
It was like the staple of the car industry
as the car to be, only to be essentially be taken over
by the Toyota Corolla.
Aye oh!
And ultimately it just kinda fell away,
especially in the past two decades.
This specific car would be sold everywhere,
it would do everything and it would truly be a car
that everyone really did love if you owned one,
and you just didn't ever have to worry about it.
The only thing was is that it was a little bit smaller
and you could not really fit a whole lot in it.
But nobody really cared because there were so many
different trims and things like that
that you could probably just buy a bigger one
or you deck the seats out or you could just you know
not try to fit a sofa in your car.
It didn't take long for our old little grubby hands
in the modification community to essentially grab them
and say hey, I wonder what would happen we LS swapped it,
that would be neat.
Or they just decided to slam it on it's nuts,
or they decided that it would be a really good time
to turn it into a drag car
or a monster truck car or a baja car,
or like anything else, besides the everyday people's car,
and that's exactly what happened.
In 2018, Volkswagen will come back out
with the final edition Beetle just before ending in 2019.
It was neat but still looked like a Beetle.
It came with the turbo
but don't worry we're gonna get to that.
The newer generations didn't carry the same love
as the older generations,
but it still was a Beetle at the end of the day.
And we're done talking about history,
I'm gonna be honest there's a ton okay.
It's a crazy little car with a ton of love
from around the world.
But we're here to talk about you actually wanting to own
a Volkswagen Beetle, aka the thin mint of the world okay.
If you want one of those I'm gonna need you to set down
your favorite Volkswagen hat and pick up...
I had a joke but it was bad,
and I stopped myself 'cause I have self-control.
Owning a Volkswagen Beetle
is a bit like having a PB&J sandwich.
It's just never a bad time to ever have one.
It's the Childish Gambino of cars.
It can be used for just about everything
and over the last 80 years or so, it has seen
about every type of car community that exist out there.
And it was because these cars could do pretty much anything
because it was way more about the shell
than anything the car actually came with.
I mean there was nothing the car came with
that you couldn't just take and replace.
The motor was super easy to work on
and it was super easy to drop out.
The interior there wasn't much too it
and so for a car that you could modify as a shell
that was relatively clean it just worked.
It was an easy car to work around that's been around
for a long time.
So anyone that's jumping into one of these
will find just a couple two three million forums
or pages or communities,
that can help you create pretty much whatever you like,
and because there's so many pages,
the odds of you coming up
with something completely original may be
a little bit difficult.
Which is something you have to remember
if you're going to own one.
And I'm not kidding the car can literally do anything
and depending on the generation that you get
and how good you are at modifying,
it can be damn good looking too, okay.
Volkswagen Beetle just need a little bit more love
and I'm here to pick em' up.
All right, picking up Beetle is just like picking up
a garage build, but a Beetle won't let you down
time and time again.
It's the Miata, before the Miata existed.
They aren't fast out of the gate, they never were
really that fast out of the gate
and it takes a little bit of makeup
and a little bit of love,
to make em' really turn into an eye-turner, a neck breaker.
I swear to god if you guys go.
If you put eyelashes on it
and then put the #Sokawaii.
I am going to personally fly out there,
I'm gonna find where you live.
Just don't do that please.
I was actually debating on starting
an anti-eyelash club, car club, on Facebook.
Sole purpose, to never have a Volkswagen
ever have those again.
The older generations one might argue are
a bit more nostalgic and overall carry the simplicity
that everyone knows the Volkswagen Beetle for.
However the newer generations tend to get a bit busy
for the gain of fun little technology like Bluetooth
and the creature comforts,
and even a turbo if you're into that sort of thing.
But most enthusiasts stick to the first generations
all the way up to like 2003-ish in terms of
what they want for the sake of reliability,
even though the early 2000s
do have a couple two, three issues.
If you jump out there on the FI gallery
you see pretty much everyone that has a Beetle
going with like blocky five spoke or a blocky six spoke
with Air Lift air suspension.
Because that is just what you do
with a Volkswagen all right.
When you slam it on the ground it keeps the arches
in the body of the car looking clean,
and just a little bit less, girly.
It just looks more neutral than bubbly if that makes sense
and because the car is so minimal, most people
end up going with a really blocky spoked wheel
or a crazy fizzy wheel,
that's running 18 by 9 1/2 plus 35
with some 215/35 Toyos.
So that they can actually put it on the ground
without having to run into the tire.
While engine modifications exists for the turbo models
and stuff the car an okay time handling it all.
It's kinda like a Mini Cooper, it's just a little.
Like it can do it but like your question is
should you do it, is an entirely different thing.
Older vehicles usually end up going through
a complete engine swap for more power,
and newer models end up sticking an ECU with turbo,
an inter cooler, exhaust and you get pretty much
everything you'd want out of a turbo model.
They sound pretty good, but they're not really a car
that's meant to go super super quick.
Unless you are a specific mechanic
that is engine swapping it
or really trying to make them fast fast.
The car is just more meant to be a cruiser,
its more meant to be something fun,
and Beetles used to get a little bit of a bad rep
in the car community because everyone automatically
thought of that one fated yellow 2001
that your stepmom had, with had the fake flowers
in the front dash.
You know which one I'm taking about.
But in all honesty, they're almost underappreciated
in my eyes, because maybe it's just the fact
of the disposition of cars that I like,
which are the other ones that look very close.
Okay they're sleek, especially the new ones.
They look good, they drive pretty well
and they aren't that expensive,
and because they aren't that expensive
you can jump into one and throw some money at it
and have a really good time with the car.
Sure, they're a little bit soft in a world
that wants to be all about the angry villain in Naruto.
But the car community needs more diversity,
it needs different and the Volkswagen Beetle does that.
There's something for everyone out there
and with the Volkswagen Beetle it's a car
that was meant for the people and has continued to do that
in the aftermarket world if you're willing
to put up with a little bit of flack,
the fact that it looks a little bit soft
and the fact that, well, they're really not made anymore.
So what do you think about the good old Beetle?
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