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CFECO -- Consider this: The frontal area of the New Beetle is greater.
This last October the fastest full Beetle body in the 36hp Challenge was a SuperBeetle body on a '64 pan with the class-qualifing 36hp engine. The bubble windshield was good for ~5mph on the top end.
What one could do is lower the beetle body and rotate it around the front axle line so the door opening is canted backward with the lower rear cut off. Additionally the body could be pie cut so the windshield is the widest part. The body would be radically taped in plan and elevation. The rear axle would be 3" longer and 3" wider (off-road parts) with pantaloons like your X-prize car.
The VW floor pans could be cut off, with a monocoque tub slung under it the depth of one Prius battery or Lithium-ion D-cell.
It would look like your X-Prize model, as a rat rod.
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