Why would anyone want to put the a hippie VW Bug inside a shredder ... The adjacent clip shows a more or less functional old Beetle that gets reduced to pieces by a pretty hefty shredder.

An emblem of the hippie ... Beetle to distance it from its Nazi heritage. It worked. A couple decades later, the car was the anthropomorphized star of a run of movies starting with The Love Bug ...

modeled after the setup in the VW Microbus. Compared with the Bug's original swing axles, the new suspension greatly enhances the Beetle's handling. Disney's first "Herbie" movie, The Love Bug ...

That said, if VW really wanted to celebrate the end of the Beetle, they'd have dropped in a GTI powertrain. (Even La Grande Bug got fuel injection.) The suspension is a great way to shut up all ...