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  • what engine that vw have ?

  • vw is the best, american cars are crap, they dont even have diesel engines

  • Exactly American cars suck. Stop buying American crap

  • TO whoever wrote people have 40k in a mustang & only run 12`s ; garbage or they got ripped off . saw a vw in the 70`s that run 12.4 in the 1/4 & had a vw engine . not stock by any means as it had a homemade 4 barrel intake ; 650 cfm holley . it was a steel body ! quiet a feat for the time ! have seen many with sbc , sbf & 1 with a 390 amc motor , 1 bbc , 1 -340 mopar , 1- 440 mopar in the last 40 years .

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  • 6954mike, that combo sounds good. You should do it. However, you should try to go 64 and before. It REEAALLY carries that sleeper image.....GuineaJay, you need to get a life. Haterism was played out yesterday. Most importantly, you should get your facts straight. Jettas and GTI's are in the VW family. However they are not aircooled like their little beetle brothers. Hater!

  • @Xetnom1242 I dunno, I'd think a super would be the ultimate sleeper, especially since most people don't like 'em.

  • VW Beetles....people are the unsung heroes of vehicles. Born and raised in Merced, Ca, and stationed in Hawaii, I seen the best of the best when it came to 1/4ml street legal beetle. Please don't fight the feeling. Just accept the fact that a beetle will bite that ass, if you step to the line.

  • Yo "Viking"

    A beetle with 200 hp will destroy many cars lol

  • that is no porsche motor

  • If I did not get married I was going to build a Toronado Olds drive train in a 65 VW bug I still have, my big fat 2 ton Olds Cutlass ran 0 to 60 in 4.85 with shit gears and tires! This combo would be deadly!

  • I had a rule back in the day...#1. Never race a VW beetle. It's like a box of Chocolates... You never know what you're gonna get!...lol Here in California it was very common to run into 10 sec. street bugs. Many of them disguised as what we would call a "sleeper" It looked stock but the tip off was the raised rear hood to accommodate the giant IDA Carbs. (i may be wrong with the initials) so refer to rule #1 to spare embarrassment...lol

  • Awesome!!!!

  • invest in a tripod !

  • ugh. This sort of thing only encourages kids to buy awful Jettas and GTIs or whatever. I owned a Jetta. SHIT. they are fine road cars but they do not last like Bugs and the minute you upgrade them you are now out of German engineering territory. You want fast? buy a real sports car. This is a fiberglass body on a rocket of a chassis

  • What does an aircooled Vdub have to do with a modern Jetta/GTI? They're completely different cars from different eras.

  • So one chassis racecar beats another racecar .. so what?

  • the nova had to run a restrictor plate

  • the nova screwed up on the start

  • AWESOME!

    VW Kill V8!

  • AWESOME FUCKING GREAT!!!

    VW 4 LIFE!!!

  • VW rules!!! but who was holding the camera,  michael j. fox???!!

  • wow, thats cold.

  • das auto.

    vw rules.

  • did the bug jump? or did the driver if the nova sleep at the tree? it doesn't take even a stock nova that long to get moving it sat for a good 2 seconds after the bug left the line

  • Tree time on each side was different. it was like giving the bug lengths

  • that bug has pickup

  • ye a bug is 900kg's, chevy around 2000kg's, my point is, air cooled engine, 4 cylinders, if your are smart enough you can make those bugs fast as hell.

  • you would bet wrong. The bug only weights 1700lbs stock. So it really only need about 300hp to smoke alot of cars.

  • bugs kick ass man!!! fucking germans did something awesome with those cars!!!

  • the win only makes since the bug and the nova probably have a SBC but the bug is half the weight

  • haha das auto!

  • i love my bug.

    and hitler supported the bug.

    the nazis did.

    ask yourself who made the tshirt your wearing.

    or the shoes.

    does that mean you believe the beliefs of whatever country made your shoes?

    come on

    the bug kicks ass.

    no doubt about it

  • the bug was in second when they started

  • very well filmed and loved the sound of the engines. its pritty hard to think a bug could beat a chevy nova dragster but its probley because the bug was tunned loved the video please like that.

  • Not hard to believe at all. The bug is MUCH lighter and even though it has a 4 cylinder engine, it has a better power/weight ratio than the nova. Not to mention this particular bug has a fiberglass body making it even lighter and reducing drag. (though the bug would probably still beat the nova with a stock metal body, because it would still be lighter).

  • and all the wight is hanging over the rear tires giving superior traction

  • This is Todd Howard's old Mega Bug, , steel bodied stock chassis pan based car, not a fiberglass body.130 cubic inc engine VS 350+

    To see a 100 Ci/1641cc Vw run a 502 Chevy, check out " Hyper Bug beats 57 Bel air "

  • Brings back memories of the 70's when I was drag racing my 71 Nova at the 8th mile in Manassas. There was a bug that regularly blew my doors off. It wouldn't spin it's tires, it would hop once and be gone, with it's single rear exhaust pointing up in the air like a freakin middle finger. Hated that bastid!

  • cant believe you guys are debatig on youtube

    I wanna know how to chop the top of my bug so it is as sick as that one

  • I can't believe how many idiots there are here.. well, yes I can, but the fact of the matter is VW bugs kick ass. The main reason behind this is their utter simplicity: you can do so bloody much with a bug. Keep it stock and you have a fine, economical, reliable car. Go crazy and turn it into a hot rod and you've got a sexy street machine (don't laugh, its true). Or go berzerk like this and turn the lightweight bug into a V8 eater. Anybody who calls VW's 'lame' have seriously poor taste in cars.

  • You have to distinguish though. The new bugs are retarded and they totally suck. The old bugs are freakin awesome.

  • Yeah, When Vw put the engine's in the front of the new beetle they took away from the real Vw bug!

    The old one's are the best!!!!

  • You mean the glorified Jetta with a funny body?

    The -real- "new Beetles" were made in Mexico and Brazil ('til '06), so far as I'm concerned! If it ain't air cooled, it ain't a Bug!

  • I was there, sitting in the stands at the 60 ft timers. It was the first IVWA race at Bristol.

  • you are an idiot. hitler wanted a small affordable car that he could use as propaganda. he didn't design the thing. and the nazis dont control VOLKSWAGEN (notice its spelled with an "e" not an "o"), it was controlled by the british government for decades before finally being given back to germany.

  • it's obvious none of you VW know your history.....do some reading before you do the childish name calling.....

  • you are saying none of us know our vw history? you have no clue do you. just for your information, i have been facsinated with vw's all my life, i own a 72 bug, and i have done the said reading. i have even done a speech for my public speaking class on the history of the beetle, which i can brag about seeing how it earned an "a". kinda makes me wonder how much research YOU have done...

  • Watch the name calling!..it is a figure of speach...and it was Hitler's idea....I didn't say he invented it..If you two guys are defending the Nazis, than die you commie racest basterd!

  • ryanstandre, are you for real? I really hope you're joking because if you aren't, then you might just be the stupidest person alive.

  • what did nazis have to do communism? Wow again wow.

  • racIst*

    bastArd*

  • The Nazis designed the Saturn V slammed toegether by good ol American Craftmansship, with the buttons falling off, so dont go disrespecting the Nazis.

  • putz. You probably think all germans are nazis.hahaha wow

  • where, and at what point in time did I say that I think all germans are nazis???? nor did I ever say that the VW or any other German car were bad, or crap....I think that the Germans make a great car.(BMW Mercedes wonderful lux/performance cars.) the real problem is that everybody here like to read in-between the lines and put words in others mouths.

  • I don't know where to start? I know you're just joking around, but when people call you on your misinformation you get mad and resort to name calling yourself. You called someone a nazi commie! What do nazis have to do with communism? They fought against the communists. Either you're uneducated and shouldn't talk... or you're really good at talking sh.. and shouldn't talk.

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  • how does that give you a right to be stupid?

  • 1300lbs. vs 3000lbs. 220bhp vs 450bhp

  • beetle or trabi

  • If the VW hadn't run faster, I'd just assume that the tree was staggered, but the guy in the Nova was sleeping.

    Bugs really weren't built for this sort of thing, but it's SO COOL when somebody does it anyway.

  • volkswagen the best car

  • Yeah the vw did pretty good to! ha ha ha

  • Not bad for the car,witch is designed

    for the late 30`s...

    Nice rew`s..

  • Bugs have been killing V8's since the 60's now they are killing rice cookers. The little flat four vw engine also holds the world record for the fastest 1/4 four cylinder engine ever... 6.60 @ 203.94 MPH! (source Wiki)

  • True, but I like a car with shocks, heat, a working radio, multiple mirrors, etc...

  • it's actually a horizontally oposed 4 cylinder.

  • True but 4 cylinder none the less (thats what flat four means). heater? radio? i thought this was a race.

    My 63 bug came with a heater, radio, two mirrors... It still has the shocks!

    trick is just 200hp will push a stock weight bug in the 11's

    The V8's are cool cars, i love MOPAR but they are just too heavy. Nova weighs 2.3 x the bug so needs 500 ish HP.

  • true.but i'd rather keep my beetle running for more then a month.the higher the power.the lower the life span till you have to rebuild the engine.

  • that bug in this video doesnt have a four bangger, and the nova is still cooler

  • What the hell makes you think the bug doesn't have a 4 cylinder? Of course it does.

  • haha wow give that nova to someone thats going to race it my mk2 GTi launches harder

  • normally aspirated VW, not a turbo. Found the Bug's site at

    megamachineshopinc dot com

  • There's a Hayabusa turbo inside?

    Superb Sound

  • hahahahahahahaha....YEA.hahaha­hahahahahah lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.lol.YEA. tha tha tha uh tha tha tha uh tha. hahahahahahahahahaa.lol.lol.lo­l..lol.shut the f*ck up.

  • It's all about hp to weight. Even if they had the same ratio, the bug would win because it has less mass to accelerate.

  • have you had your v8 today

  • hahahahaha.... thats all bad when u have a 4cyl eat`n a v8 for lunch hahahahaha... nice... long live the v dub! lol

  • I was just wondering what is the lighest beetle shell you can get? (i know the 1303 and 1302 beetle shells were the heaviest. thanks.

  • its a vw engine and its turbo, 4 cil, and all i have to say: another v8 bites the dust!

  • Wow!

  • That and the driver of the NOVA was a NOVICE, he couldn't burnout, stage, or launch. Defanitely a 4 cylinder, might be a subaru engine though, I'm in the process of putting an EJ25 in my '73 Super. Granted it's a real car and not a tube chassis with a fiberglass shell.

  • Nope. bug motor. You can tell its a bug motor by the sound. No other motor in the world sounds like it.

  • yup, i agree. if i remeber right, that bug is called "the red barron" and has a 3.0 bug motor.

  • this was the Mega Bug, not the Red Baron. The Red Baron is an 8 second (1/4) turbo

  • ah. i couldnt tell because they look almost the same. but then again i havnt seen the red baron in a while

  • Fifty8vw--it's pretty easy to tell what happened. You can't beat a bug if you're a heavy v8...just ain't going to happen.

  • is that a quarter of a mile run?

  • 1/8 mile

  • the only 4 bangr known to MAN to keep up with an american muscle car

  • are you sure thats a 4 banger? They have been know to have v8's dropped into them.

  • oh yeah, you can her it well... it's an ac flat-4, probably 2.4 or 2.8 liters.

  • Yeah, you know nothing. Check out bug o rama. Bugs with 4 cyclinder motors.. running 8's in the 1/4.. I have 4 friends that have bugs that will eat any "American Muscle car" you throw at em!

  • I wasn't disagreeing with that. Hence the "That and" being the first two words of the post. And you may have friends that can eat any "American Muscle Car" but it is very difficult to get over 150 horses reliably... even with a Type IV transmission swap.

  • hahahaha a no-va with a bug in the windshield, hahahaha, (no va)spanish for DOESN'T GO!!! JLMFAO HAHAHA

  • Or all these cell phone camera movies where you can barely see whats going on. I agree with drmilton. Judging by how old this clip is he must have had one of those full sized vhs cameras. I had one myself back in the day and remember how heavy they were. Hard to keep those steady after a day of filming, out in the heat at that. As for the cars, I like em both. Cheers to the VW for the win. I own a 58 VW and a 51 Chevy btw.

  • Give the dude a break. Looks alot better than all these night races where all you see are lights and you can't even make out which car is which.

  • Hate it when a DORK cant hold a camera still

  • good content BADDDDDD VIDEOING please spare our eyes!

  • 1/8th mile for sure

  • That's German engineering for you....

  • hahahahahahaahahahah that was the best vid EVER!!!

  • that nova sucks... but im a nova fan!!

    that nova got schooled!!!!!

    (still a nova fan!!!)

  • dude how-about a new video camera,I'm a vw fan but ouch...horrible vid quality....out.

  • my camera was old when I filmed it plus the videotape sitting in storage for 14 years I'm surprised it kept that much quality

  • The Nova guy finished his coffee first......

  • man i need to get a job so i can fix up my bug to run faster cause right now its a 1500cc motor but gonna get a better engine dont know which one yet

  • dont get all wet on those times. its for 8th mile not the 4th.

  • looked like a 1/4 to me

  • Its 1/8, look at the times

  • Power for the masses !!! VW beetle rules all the way !

  • My 69 VW Bug burns rubber @ 3 gear... i don't know the results for gear 4 becouse my schools parking area was too smal to it :D its have "allmost" normal 1600cc engine :D

  • both cars are sweet. dude wasnt on a pogo stick, he probably had one of those full sized VHS tape camcorders from back in the day. I know the one I used to have would get HEAVY by the end of a show. I filmed alot of stuff that started off good but got alot more shaky as the day went on. I thought this video was cool.

  • Oh and by the way, for you guy talking shit back and forth. I love Mustangs and have an 85..5.0 and 93cobra,97cobra,04cobra that I love and think is better than any car out there. I have at least $40,000 into each one to run from mid 12s to low 10s. the VW beat them all in cost. The only bad thing about the VW, it is that it is not street leagl.

  • It's not hard nor dose it cost alot of money to make a VW fast. I have a 69 VW and other bad ass cars and of all of them the VW was the cheapest to build. I bought the car for $500 bought a built 2135cc moter for it. Went to the junk yard and stole a turbo off a Nissan Z and bolted it right to the exaust. I made the charge pipe from thick PVC pipe left over from my pool pump and it runs low 11s with slicks. It cost me only $2,500 bucks total. Beat that!!!

  • hey go look at kurt vs camaro while youre at it.

  • Where's the race?! Were you on a pogo stick while you were filming this?

    You suck.

  • ur right vette and i never said that the nova wasnt fixed i said if they both were stock from the factory that Vdub wouldnt have a chance. anyone can make a car fast depending on how much money they have, im talkin right off the showroom floor. and this case that beetle owner mustve had a fortune, because it is fast

  • of couse, why are you commenting on how much better V8's are then vw's in a video where the V8 got Pwn3d? yes i love both V8's and VW's, but in this case, the vw took the win, it that to hard to comprehend? both insanely fast cars anyways

  • lol yea u really think VW can beat a chevy straight up, no mods dont you? keep dreamin. if anything comes close its a subaru

  • Yo wake up, none of those cars was by any means standard your comment is just plain stupid. When pdivizzle0112 says the original V8 killer he means that VW was there early in the 60s beeing the first to do so.

  • what the hell r u talkin about i mean from the factory. NO aftermarket mods or bolt ons. VW doesnt make quality auotmoibles anyway. and thats a fact.

  • shut your mouth. you don't know anything about VW's.

  • and you dont know nothin about american muscle. my friend had an old GTI and traded it for an Impreza because he kept having problems at 80,000 miles. his subaru has over 130,000. thats sayin somethin right there. try searching for more vids on "VDub" beating american muscle, you wont find alot.

  • oh yeah and the beetle is still going strong today, we have a 1974 clasic beetle and it has never let us down!! and she is show standard!!!

  • you're dreaming if you think that Nova didn't have any mods. Any car can be fixed up to beat any other car. Both these look very nice and are very fast, especially for two normally aspirated cars.

  • 6 seconds??? HOLY SHIT

  • Holy shit.

  • owned!! :D

  • omg

  • Volkswagen: The original 4-cylinder V8 Killer

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