- License the body design of the '72 Beetle from Volkswagen
- Build the bodies/chassis in Mexico and ship them to Canada
- Outfit them with electric motors.
- Sell 'em
Brilliant.
Canadian/German/Mexican Initiative
Submitted 7 months ago by Candid_Andy@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 7 months ago
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I worked with a guy that had one of the last Mexican made Bugs. It was just as I remembered the old ones but all new and fresh. I was jealous. it’s a damn shame they stopped making them. Would be cool to make them electric cars
i just remembered in highschool as a senior prank 8 of us picked up a teachers Bug and put it in the Gym
crank0271@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well you sure aren’t do that with an EV larger than a Powerwheels
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
- Fall afoul of modern crash test standards, and have to sell them as “off-highway utility vehicles”.
- Profit anyways, probably.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh yeah, these things are deathtraps.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not even just in crashes. Think of all the physical assaults and sore arms that would ensue if these took back to the streets en masse.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They could modernize the underlying structure to keep the same body shape while massively improving safety like they did in the 2000s. It already has a curved hood for pedestrians, and the main issue with the originals was the front end collapsing like tin foil in an accident.
altphoto@lemmy.today 7 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABAM0yVC5mo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTWdJ9ZyTK8
And worth mentions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCQdI0H1LcE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs4mdTkqKXk