

I'd still like VW's interior folks to at least consider adding extenders to the sun visors, however. The new car also eschews the quirky bud vase for a usable upper dash tray, which seems to be a far better use of interior real estate. And even with the lower roof, interior headroom doesn't seem to suffer-likely because of the fact that you could've flown a kite while wearing a 10-gallon hat without touching the headliner with all of the airspace in the older model. This thing looks manly and mean versus its cute and cuddly predecessor. The lowered roofline and the creased sheetmetal make for a much sportier and sleeker appearance compared with the pudgy porker that preceded it. EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: To my eye, this slammed "new new" Beetle Turbo is the car Volkswagen should have created back when the company introduced the New Beetle.
