efore the arrival of the venerable Golf in 1974, Volkswagen was selling its cute but (let’s be honest) wildly out-of-date Beetle, a contraption invented for the masses in 1938. The minimal Bug remains attractive as a quirky classic car but was well past it in the 1970s. Other VW offerings such as the woeful Type 3, pug-ugly 411 and square K70 look cool only if driven by hipster surfers. In California. Even though the Beetle was a best-seller in earlier years, with a total of 23million flogged to misguided Americans in
