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Originally Posted by Piotrsko

I think the panache of the bug was maintenance/cost oriented

Maintenance was often pointed out to be easier than cars with water-cooled engines, either the American landyachts which used to be mainstream even in Brazil or some random other European compacts such as the Ford Anglia.

Cheap base vehicle with Diy at home so cost per mile was much less otherwise it was just a post war econo box.

Actually it was developed during the interwar.

depends on how socially sensitive you are to outside pressure

Some folks I talk to eventually dislike the Beetle, saying it's too crude or old, while many others who think other cars are better suited to modern driving conditions still recognise the historical significance of the Beetle in Brazil and how it may remain better suited to some harsh conditions than any modern econobox.

I was unbiased either way until I was given one, and even then it took a couple years of ownership to sway my opinion

So, do you like, dislike, or don't really care about Beetles?

I know people who parents were all hippy dippy as George Carlin would say that do not like bugs at all

Maybe some folks who had hippie parents got to dislike the Beetle because it was often pointed out as a hippie stereotype, and their differences with their hippie parents may have influenced their dislike for the Beetle.