Second beetle death: VW stops producing its iconic beetle

The last "Ladybug", of a shiny metallic blue, of burning engines and between mariachis music, alive and applause, left the badembly line to roll a few meters up to a platform. exhibition, under a shower of falls and pyrotechnics.

The model has added more than 1.7 million units since its badembly in the Puebla plant in 1997.in central Mexico, one of the largest VWs in the world. C & # 39; was the second generation of the beetle, designed to replace the economy sedan.

The last 65 models of the "Beetle Final Edition" will be sold in Mexico online only for $ 21,000 for the basic model.

Each of the vehicles that make up this latest edition carries a commemorative plaque from left to left on the left, in the colors metallic blue, black, white and beige.

The Ladybug was the heiress of the legendary VW sedan, designed in 1938 in Germany at the apogee of Nazism and this was produced until 2003, leaving the latest model also from this factory in Mexico, where the "Vocho", as it is nicknamed amateurs

But unlike the scarab beetle, one of the cheapest cars on the market, the "beetle" is considered a luxury car. Its price doubles that of other models of similar sedans. The popularity was therefore much lower and is not very visible in the streets of Mexico City.

Other Latin American countries, such as Brazil, are also true enthusiasts of the modest sedan, which the Brazilians call "Fusca", while the former Uruguayan president José "Pepe" Mujica He transformed his 1987 celestial beetle into a symbol of his austerity.