New Volkswagen Beetle review - Auto Express

[KutadguB]

Autoexpress, would you think about putting reviewers name on titles like "New Volkswagen Beetle review - Mat Watson - Auto Express" (Because im only here for Matt). Thanks.

[randallsnowden21]

doesn't look that much different to be honest....

[wizardmz10]

911 wannabe?

[masterbawth]

@wizardmz10 if you know your history you would know the 911 is a beetle ripoff

[wizardmz10]

@masterbawth realy? .|.

[masterbawth]

@wizardmz10 ya the guy who designed the 911 did the beetle first. basically he drew the same car but much less expensive and pretty

[wizardmz10]

@masterbawth I WAS BEING IRONIC ....

[masterbawth]

@wizardmz10 oh were you? im not so sure about that

[dorta26]

manly? VW Beetle will always be a girl's car... so is Fiat 500

[altern8ive]

i love bugs but i'd have a scirocco over the new one every time. vw have ruined the people's car!!

[DJTEVAdotCOM]

its freakin red ...thats why it looks like a girl car

[DJTEVAdotCOM]

PT Cruizer???nows going bug me

[NBM397]

PT Chrysler! God damn it, you just ruined the Beetle (and Beetle R) for me :(

[MakeLoveNoBabiez]

im a 22year guy and i would drive this guy with pride....but the bright red is a big no.....this car blacked out would be sick...

[shobin05]

why would anyone get this piece of shit over an RCZ, CRZ, a scirocco or even a golf gti? its idiotic..

[NBM397]

@shobin05

Because the GTI Golf is a cliche and too many 6000-watt-stereo chavs drives one.

[johnnywires3]

@shobin05 why not?

[shobin05]

@johnnywires3 because its not worth it? because its ugly? its not practical? its slow? its not as striking as the cars i mentioned earlier? but mostly its driven by men who have very small penis or girls..

[johnnywires3]

@shobin05 that is the type of answer i expected from you.the new beetle is a better car than the old one.bigger,longer wider.i find the turbo in black,as others have mentioned,realy nice.womens car my arse.golf,boring.scirocco?how can you compare a scirocco to the beetle?first it is not as practical as the beetle.try going on a trip with 4 in a scirocco.my penis is fine and my girlfriend is smashing.my advice to you is to not forget to take your medicine.get well soon.

[shobin05]

@johnnywires3 tell me, the scirocco and golf cost around the same, the golf has 5 seats, not 4, it looks a LOT better, both the other cars are MUCH faster, and they all have the same engines,

Any sane MAN would have a scirocco or a golf..and you say that the beetle is a mans car? so why is it at the top five ranking vote for girls car? hmm, weird...

and Hahaha, you drive a beetle lol..

[johnnywires3]

@shobin05 the golf is boring and the scirocco is not practical,as i have said before.i dont look at cars of this class,for speed.speed wise they are not fast cars,others are.as for girl car,i have seen reports that have girls loving the bentley gt and continetal.are they girl cars.the mazda mx5,a nice little sports car.is that a girls car?i dont own a beetle but i am seriously considering the beetle turbo.at the moment i drive a mitsubishi outlande 2.2 diesel.look at lenos report on the beetle.

[shobin05]

@johnnywires3 in what way the golf is a more boring car compared to this? the fact that most people prefer it to this? hmm, maybe people buy it for oh, i dont know, ITS BETTER? and there IS a reason why people bought an MX5, because its cheap and fast, this is neither...and there are MUCH more alternatives thats a LOT better...

funny, you say the golf is boring probably because you know it completely outclass this...

i would say this is a good car, if all the other cars in the market dont exist

[johnnywires3]

@shobin05 what do you drive,by the way.someone who says the mx5 is cheap and fast,shows to me he has no idea about cars.i will not say more.just watch the beetle sell.

[shobin05]

@johnnywires3 Lmao, Who says the MX5 isnt fast and cheap? its well equipped and its extremely driver focused, thats why motortrend nominated it in for driver's car, any idiot, knows the mx5 is good car...

and most girls knows only two cars in existence, mini and beetle...but obviously most of them go for the beetle because they know nothing about cars, they think its "cute" but to a man it looks like shit on wheels..beetle drivers know nothing about cars the end. including you

[johnnywires3]

@shobin05 first i think your view on women is shit.second where do you get the mx5 is cheap syndrome?as i said the new beetle will sell and sell well.the reason it will sell well is because its a GOOD CAR.keep an eye on sales stats sunshine.as i said before keep taking the medicine.if you cant,just stick a pineapple up your arse.from what i have gathered so far your iq is that of a carrot.waiting for your next stupid reply.

[shobin05]

@johnnywires3 hahaha, dude your comment is full of cuss, it doesnt have a single point...how old are you? im starting to think youre not even old enough to have a licence...The MX5 was and still is the cheapest two seater convertible sports car, AND the most SOLD..

Boys buy a beetle because their girlfriend asked them to, or because they want others to know that they are fucking gay...THE END.

[shobin05]

@water0x00 lol

[edmaluf]

I don't think VW will find many men who want to buy a beetle, speciall with the Golf and the Scirocco being as good as they are.

[asskickerone]

What's up with this dude and his constant blabbing about masculinity...

[Twsit133]

@asskickerone Its supposed to be a girly car, so VW tried to make this one more manly

[Carrera911Fan]

id be down for a beetle, i mean the styling is nice and it does have the gti engine so tunning it will be relatively easy. get it in black white or red and its not so girly, all black interior, black rims and windows, debadge it, drop it a bit and put a nice exhaust on it and it wont be a girl car anymore

[boboriginal]

i want one.... ill do a Scandinavian Flick to drift it

[adriannippy]

Standing to pee doesnt make one more manly . Bois do that too hahah.

[NAGATOuzumaki16]

i want one but with the other dual spikes rims, auto matic with paddle shiffters,etc

[demirhan33]

red paint is manly only on ferrari

[1amMiky]

I really enjoy watching your reviews, great job!

[Iwillnotdoit]

Thumbs up if you're man enough to admit that you sit down to wee. When you're at home that is.

[toyota420xp]

@Iwillnotdoit if im tired or realy drunk

[mtksbctk]

@Iwillnotdoit lol pussies, just wait for your manhole to get pounded by some thick hard meat.

[Iwillnotdoit]

@mtksbctk I guess you're in denial...

[Innokentij1985]

FWD safer in the snow? Are you mad? If you cant drive for shit "it's safer" but then you aint safe cause you cant drive for shit!

[litalover19]

@dagnut I'm a women smart ass! And my husband drives a beetle and he is far from being a fag! Fag!......

[Senkatuka23]

Those headlights are very Porsche like

[litalover19]

I think its ignorant when people say this is a girls car. I see plenty of men driving the last body style of the beetle. Anyway I want this bug!

[dagnut]

@litalover19 But that's because you're a fag

[j0sababa]

No HD is as manly as the new beetle is as manly is to sit to have a wee...

[itsTiLER]

never in my life would i think a Chrysler PT Cruiser be mentioned in an Autoexpress video.

and why no HD?

[TrippySkippy1]

What a gay car, so ugly, looks like a 3yr olds plastic toy!

[carlmanu]

if vw seriously wanted to change this car's image perception they should've done the car the old fashioned way. affordable pricing-RWD-small naturally aspirated boxer engine (probably no more than 2L) in the back. this car is just too über cute to be taken seriously by a man.

[Turbulence654321]

put the GT2 RS engine in it

[shobin05]

haha, this is one great review...

[posro1988]

what's this with girly manly car business isn't that for petty people to worry about, you know the people who think their "jewels" aren't enough so they drive around in colourless bmws and audis

[powersliding]

looks awful in pictures..much better on videos...but a sirocco everyday to this

[tmanutd82]

Yeah... why that car is called the Beetle, it's not going to be a man's car.

[peterhejlejensen]

Hey. They are in Berlin.

[losangelesrep]

So, just get a golf gti then?

[ricepaddy69]

@losangelesrep Yeah, for the tartan seats and the extra room for a fifth person.

[Josephalosaurus]

i kinda like it, does that make me kinda gay ?? :|

[ImHereToAnnoyYou]

Yeah, yeah, the 'Skeer-ock-oh' isn't a man's car it's a show off car for people who don't realise no one gives a shit about their empty lives.

They should change the wheels, paint it Black (like a stag beetle...), give it 4 wheel drive, 280 bhp and call it the Beetle-RS. Make it the fastest Volkswagen as a homage to their roots, then it will be cool.

[lffit]

I have been used to big RWD cars, and I can tell you FWD cars handle much better, they also are safer in the snow, and have more interior space.

I like this car not the previous one; the original one was a gem; had one years ago.

[vandecar15]

@lffit i rarely comment on videos, but you are a complete moran, idiot, retard who knows absolutely nothing about cars. FWD cars are far more dangerous with terrible understeer and torque steer. they are not safer in the snow lol they go up hill better in the snow, thats all. ever driven a fwd car down a hill in a New England blizzard. no you havent, because if you had you would have under steered off the road, died, and would have never posted this uneducated comment. rwd is far superior.

[lffit]

@vandecar15 moron OK lol; I do know something about cars having worked for the best part of my career for Ford.

We have snow also in France i.e the Alps? all I know we have been unable to come home after snow in RWD cars, such as an Lexus IS 200; (which also did a 360° on the autoroute between semis) later on in a Mazda RX8, (which we had to abandon on the roadside) and leave for 2 days and get a lift home in a tiny Renault Clio.

So there you go? Speaking from experience.!

[takesonetokillall]

@lffit

Drivetrain configuration has little to do with interior space.

FF cars are easier to use and live with, and they are ideal for snowy conditions because of the engine's weight bearing down on the front wheels-- but no, they almost always never handle as well as a proper FR car.

If you deny that, you're either unfamiliar with the idea of understeer, or don't understand driving physics.

[lffit]

@takesonetokillall yes it does because generally FWD drive cars have the engine facing east/west, therefore the bonnet (hood as Americans say) is shorter as a result the interior is larger, plus there isn't a large transmission hump in the floor well,

The final benefit is the fact that the engine weight is over the drive wheels in FWD; no need for the bags of sand in the boot (trunk)

Not so good for burnouts, if that is what you want?

[takesonetokillall]

@lffit also, you act as if hoods are supposed to be a set length and intrude into passenger space when it's longitudinally mounted...

[lffit]

@takesonetokillall when you design a car say of 5 or 6 metres in total length, the hood length also figures in the total equation, therefore the shorter it is the larger the remaining cabin and trunk space can be.

So placing a motor across a car in an EW direction FWD means the car has a shorter hood, and this is acheived.

[xM1LkMaNx]

@lffit Like the smart man below me, @takesonetokillall, a cars interior space has nothing to do with whether or not the car is MR, FR, FF or RR. Also, lol@FF cars handling better. No, just no.

[lffit]

@xM1LkMaNx yes for a given length, why do your American cars have such long hoods, because not only the engines are larger but face North/South, therefore to create some decent interior space the car has to be longer and heavier, why for example do your pickup trucks wheels spin badly? no weight over the drive wheels.

I have spent all my life with RWD and FWD is better.

I have an AWD drive car now for where i live, and even then without snow tryes it will skid.

[TheFrostyDealer]

@lffit FWD cars do not handle better than RWD cars. They drive pretty much the same in the city, or the highway.

Fwd cars have too many problems(Torque steer, understeer,) and are generally cheaper to make.

RWD cars are dying. Like Manual transmissions.

[lffit]

@TheFrostyDealer Frankly I don't mind as I grew up them, but on icy or snow roads they aren't so good, practically nobody in Europe goes to the Alps in winter with one.

The Germans till make them with their larger models, I have too an old Ford Focus, no torque steer or understeer whatsover, but of course it only has a1.6 litre engine if you put a 300hp motor in it it will.

I remember Toyotas of the eighties, Camry, Tercel etc... they were the worst, but times have changed.

[Scotracer1987]

@TheFrostyDealer FWD cars don't inherently have more understeer. It's all down to how you drive them.

[dagnut]

@Scotracer1987 Do you even own a car?

[Scotracer1987]

@dagnut Do you know how to drive? 99% of the time people complain about FWD cars understeering it's because they simply don't know how to drive them. I bet you use the same lines in corners with RWD and FWD.

[dagnut]

@Scotracer1987 Yeah I do drive I have owned FWD, AWD and RWD cars..I say again what do you drive? I see you're an engineer which makes your statement even more puzzling.

[Scotracer1987]

@dagnut It completely depends on what you are meaning by understeer. I'm coming from the engineering side of it, where understeer is defined in the steady-state. The driver has a lot of control over how the car handles by how he uses the throttle. I currently drive a Clio Cup and believe me, that thing oversteers in most conditions. I had an Integra Type R before that which was perhaps the best handling car I have EVER driven. And I've driven Elises. I think you've been driving the wrong FWDs...

[dagnut]

@Scotracer1987 I haven't my friend had a JDM teg r I had a pulsar VZR with lsd,of course the driver has control stop stating the obvious...you're Clio is only over steering on lift off..as most fwd with an lsd will,or induced with a flick which doesn't count.. All modern cars are set up for mild understeer but when a fwd loses traction it will under-steer more than an rwd car..given all conditions are equal, grip, velocity, slip angle >the fwd will understeer more..driver skill is a variable

[Scotracer1987]

@dagnut Too simplistic. And who says my Clio is as it was out of the factory? In the steady-state the car has slight oversteer. I am not talking about lift-off oversteer. A Pulsar? Come on, they were never renowned for being balanced chassis'. Most modern cars have pretty much the same understeer/oversteer characteristics when going through a constant radius corner at a constant speed (this is what steady-state is). As you said, it's mild understeer. So to say FWD has understeer is too general.

[dagnut]

@Scotracer1987 You have no experiences of the VZR , probably never even seen one as they where JDM only and very few came into the UK so don't speak about what you don't know...had a 172 clio as well the VZR pissed on it.. It ins't too simplistic it's simple physics, you being an engineer this is just stupid. Argue the basics of my point given all factors being equal which will understeer first the car driven by it's steering wheels or the car driven by the rear wheels?

[Scotracer1987]

@dagnut I HAVE seen one of those. My friend had one and was obsessed with the thing. Pulsars were never renowned for handling - it was always the fact they could be tuned to give mega power easily that made them so popular (also it'll never win any beauty pageants). Look it's simple: There's no simple fact that a FWD or a RWD car will understeer first. It's entirely dependant on weight distribution. You ARE trying to be too simplistic. If FWD was so bad, they wouldn't win the BTCC so often.

[dagnut]

@Scotracer1987 your thinking of a GTI-R..at least do some goggling you clown!! its a 1.6 N/a with 173 bhp and superb nismo tuned chassis..again your missing the SIMPLE point and are trying to deflect..I din't say FWD was bad did I? we are debating understeer and you know I'm right....all things being equal, weight, speed slip angle, grip the FWD will under steer..BTCC is based on road cars that are FWD that's why you nob....type of homoglation...name ANY top racing class with FWD drive ..ANY

[Tinydevil12]

i think i'll stick with my penis

[reevsaj]

Definitely looks better than the old generation, but that's not saying much.

[bearbear807]

Put the flower at the "gap"

[skoshy]

That was great!

[SaveNurburgring]

I knew it , still a girls car , just sexy muscular babes in this case ...

[AndrewParkerTV]

If you look at the original Beetle, that wasn't manly either. But it just happened to be popular with men. Though I think the original Beetle's popularity with men came out of the flower power era, not something we have to make today's Beetle popular with men.

Nice car though, even better with a different colour and wheels.

[ricepaddy69]

@AndrewParkerTV I believe the dune buggies helped the original's masculine appeal, too.

[AndrewParkerTV]

@ricepaddy69 Yes they were great fun, I think you can get them in kit form from replica companies.

[alx187]

I actually think its quite a good car for our Gay community!

[solicama]

no matter what you do to beetle, after the last generation will always be a car for girls. I prefer the scirocco

[shafta99]

i'd rather have the new hyundai accent and save the money. by the way it is just barely better than a pt cruiser but that costs less then this too. this guy should know what girly things are like.

[djuraster]

im not gay but prefer scirocco

[loufadoros20]

i'm gay but i prefer the scirocco

[frdyn8tr]

Your "manly" scirocco is almost exclusively driven by girls :( A lot of very good cars have that fate: Z4, Mini, Boxster...

[llovevuvu]

Nice.

[schecterguitarsfan]

i actually wanna drive it and im a man. haha!

[MrBazpoker]

No front-wheel drive car will ever be considered "manly" !

[pretty00lights]

@MrBazpoker really?! so you consider a Focus RS a girsl car?

[1989kheir]

@MrBazpoker yep audis are girls cars :)

[ShizoluckyShizostar]

@MrBazpoker except the original Mini.

[manlyman6392]

@MrBazpoker the GTI? DS3? you got the game fucked up

[Scotracer1987]

@MrBazpoker Go drive an Integra Type R and say that again.

[4spdk]

@Scotracer1987 fck your honda, man

[IrishAlliedBanks]

@MrBazpoker Focus rs mofo!! : )

[raileanulucian]

@MrBazpoker alfa-romeo 159 

[stevendufour]

@MrBazpoker It's called a Ford Focus RS with 350 Hp...

[JdubsFTW]

@MrBazpoker im sorry? how about the GTI.

[ruairi50]

wouldnt be seen dead in it

[vburgazli]

cool! i think, it's look like first beetle!

[jjrdias]

There ain't a more girlish car than the Mini. And there's plenty of blokes swarming 'round in'em.

[MrFeruiz]

hahaha great new review mat!!! thanks for sharing, I love VW and I love the new VW Beetle!

[adulby]

"reminds me of a Chrysler PT cruiser" ...treated

[riseofthefallen301]

like the presenter, good job... crap car though

[Ioanides001]

the giant jelly comparison wasn;t that funny...



[Thesuperblack22]

I actually like the Beetle.

The presennter , ehhh disappointed me for comparing it to a PT Cruiser

[Ioanides001]

the new beetle is as manly as sitting down to have a wee...

[nicolaschah96]

First

Dont like the car and the presenter,

Thumbs up if you agree