{"id":82588,"date":"2023-09-16T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=82588"},"modified":"2023-09-15T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T13:24:06","slug":"the-many-many-failed-vw-beetle-reboots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/09\/16\/the-many-many-failed-vw-beetle-reboots\/","title":{"rendered":"The many, MANY failed VW Beetle Reboots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ut7zFv7fUs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Big Car<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 22 Oct 2021<\/p>\n<p>I recently made a video on the many, many times British Leyland tried to update the Mini. The lack of an update helped to make the original Mini an iconic shape. The same has happened to many other iconic cars, and the Volkswagen Type 1 or Beetle falls into the same camp. Why did it take 36 years until the Beetle would get a replacement, and how did a car made as a Nazi show of strength end up in a Disney film?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Second &#8220;optional extra&#8221; part of this video:    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=25Nkm6TehIk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The many, MANY fa&#8230;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to support what I do, and get early access to advert-free videos and exclusive channel updates, please consider supporting the channel from just $1 or 80p a month: <a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/bigcar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/patreon.com\/bigcar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support me using PayPal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/bigcartv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/bigcartv<\/a><br \/>\nBig Car merch:  <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bigcartv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bigcartv<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigcartv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigcartv<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Car Published 22 Oct 2021 I recently made a video on the many, many times British Leyland tried to update the Mini. The lack of an update helped to make the original Mini an iconic shape. The same has happened to many other iconic cars, and the Volkswagen Type 1 or Beetle falls into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,1118,7],"tags":[111,140,457,516,1436],"class_list":["post-82588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-germany","category-history","tag-cars","tag-design","tag-fascism","tag-mexico","tag-westgermany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lu4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84786,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588\/revisions\/84786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}