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Volkswagen to End Production in Mexico City of Its Original Beetle.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003
The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 30--MEXICO CITY--Bug lovers called it the "car of the century." But that was last century.
On Wednesday, the only nation on Earth still producing the original Volkswagen Beetle is scheduled to mothball production and end an era.
The last Bug is No. 3,000 in what Volkswagen AG calls the "Ultimate Edition," a special model in beige or pastel blue, with chrome and whitewalls from its past. It's set to roll off the Puebla assembly line, 80 miles southeast of Mexico City, for shipping to a VW museum in Wolfsburg, Germany.
"The end of production of this model has tremendous symbolic significance for Mexicans because almost all of us have had one," said Leonel Rodriguez...
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