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VW Beetle - the machine is not just the legendary or popular, it is rather a symbol of the outgoing era and at the same time a monument to its creator. There are many small lamps, beautiful and not very, inexpensive or prestigious, common or to some extent exclusive, and there is still a VW beetle, better known as a beetle, although in the German directory it passes as Kafer. This car has amazing fate and absolutely unrealted circulation, it was produced in several countries, but it always remained hardly the most popular car of all times and peoples. Probably, there was an eye over, otherwise than to explain the fact that a non-dynamic and not most ideal in terms of quality and dynamic characteristics of the car was able to achieve such amazing success. And what can be explained by a consistently high demand for this model and, it seems, a completely faithful career of New Beetle. However, the right to deal with this phenomena we will leave analysts and tell you better about one unique copy of this very beetle.
 
This beetle, which appeared in Minsk, literally less than six months ago, today knows almost the whole city. Liqui Moly firm seems to have become known for most Minsk residents thanks to this car. The red-blue beetle on the waste tires and with a huge anti-worm behind the back has long become popular in the city. The car itself is very colorful, and there is also an action by catching a beetle, conducted by the Belarusian representative office of the company. By the way, the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating an advertising car came to the head of the Belarusians, and her colleagues from other representative offices were appreciated. However, not only they are almost anyone who saw the car passing past, wrapped him after him. But the car has been going through the streets of the city for whole six months! I imagine what was happening in the first days ...
 
Of course, if it were the usual, standard beetle, then even in such a bright coloring, he would hardly be able to attract so much attention. Another thing is an instance after tuning. Thanks to incredibly expanded wings and decorative thresholds, the car turned out a much colorful of his serial fellow, although the appearance of the serial beetle also won't call the ordinary. After such a refinement, and even on incredibly wide wheels, the car in some angles became similar to another relative - PorsShe 911, which also had a similar layout and air cooling engine. By the way, the changes touched and the cabin, especially the rear of it. Almost all space in this car is given to the most powerful speaker system, and the native chairs gave way to sports buckets with four-point belts. The skin of red will be covered literally the entire salon: ceiling, door panels, center console and even internal door handles. Unusually and somehow it is very nice to see all this, especially after the same plastic interiors of modern small carbs. Metallic knob lever and outdoor incredibly rigid pedals completed a picture of a real car designed in those distant times when the word ergonomics for many seemed a medical term. And you know, it is incredibly nice that this beetle is absolutely not the same as everything is absolutely not suitable for anybody. So I want to wear thin shoes on a thin leather sole to feel the vibrations on the pedals, find racing crags and hear the legendary gentlemen, start the motors ...
 
Well, we will do. The protracted advance of the starter and ... Motor was fixed, shuddered, came to life - the rumbling of the engine flooded the entire salon, muffled all the other sounds. Not very loud, but a clearly audible every note published by the engine. Vibrations transferred to them on the body, as if the pulse - on acceleration, he is studied, turning into a small shiver, and at the traffic light, having swollen, again gradually comes back to normal. And what about the sound! Still, that experts say there, there are two big differences - sound accompaniment resulting from the use of a specially configured silencer, or simply the sound of the motor itself, without any special effects. What is heard in the cabin of this beetle, even the sound of the motor is difficult, rather, this breathing is clean and deep. It is a pity that it was not possible to ride the car. Dry tires, almost like slicks, and snow porridge on the roads - not the most successful combination, especially since the presence of an ABS or electronic brake force distribution system in this case can not be any speech. However, I was not very upset about this, because the purpose of such cars is to deliver aesthetic pleasure rather than to hit the imagination with incredible technical indicators or the availability of a spacious trunk. And with this task, in the sense of aesthetic pleasure, VW Beetle copes as it is impossible.
 
Text: Pavel Kozlovsky
 

A source: Autogase / N 3 (349) dated January 30, 2002