VW Beetles (not Beetles or Beatles)

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                   The Re-design of the VW Beetle

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After seeing what you modern Volkswagen Designers have done to
MDdJ's classic design I am not sure I should be posting this message

:-)

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                   _[/----------------- \]_
                 / _ |\       0        /| _ \
                | (_)| \              / |(_) |
                |____|__\_____!______/__|____|
                [__________| MEIN |__________]  -MDdJ-
                 |__|      ~~~~~~~~      |__|    Meindert de Jong



Stephen Pierce wrote:

> Hope you don't mind but here's my rendition.  Still not enough
> like a Beetle (but that seems a bit hard straight on).

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                       /-\|                 |/-\
                      | _ |\       0       /| _ |
                      |(_)| \      !      / |(_)|
                      |___|__\_____!_____/__|___|   -Steve Pierce-
                      [_________|MEIN1|_________]
                       ||||    ~~~~~~~~     ||||
                       `--'                 `--'


I don't meind at all because the picture was not mein - it was done
by MDdJ ( Meindert de Jong ).



...then Bryant Fong wrote:

> (i made the bottom of the window curved and shrank the top)

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                       /-\|                 |/-\
                      | _ |\       0       /| _ |
                      |(_)| \      !      / |(_)|
                      |___|__\_____!_____/__|___|  -Bryant Fong-
                      [_________|MEIN1|_________]
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                       `--'                 `--'



...followed by Paul Foerster:

> ... yeah, and i saved bandwidth by removing prepended blanks and
> wasted bandwidth by posting it again with minor changes:

   1. Added a steering wheel
   2. Reworked the hood
   3. Also changed the chassis a bit
   4. Reworked the indicators on the wheel cases


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|(_)| \      |      / |(_)|   -Paul Foerster-
|___|__\_____!_____/__|___|
[_________|MEIN1|_________]
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and then... Bas Meijer:

> Hmm, while the first one looks like a VW-Porsche, the second one
> looks like a T-beetle, how about this one:

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                    |______>..____|____..<______|  -Bas Meijer-
                    [_________| MEIN2 |_________]
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For my two cents worth I would say the first three variants look 
more like Skodas than VWs. I think Bas Meijer's effort is closer to 
a Beetle than Meindert de Jong's original which looks too classy for 
the old VDub.  


Here's another candidate from a different perspective - by Eric
Uner. I think it's supposed to be a VW ?

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   \_\_/    \_\_/   \_\_/

  Eric Uner


Have we actually seen the definitive VW Beetle yet ?  I think the VW
Beetle is more curvaceous than those we have seen so far.

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