Volkswagen Beetle (A5) sale in 2016. Although four-wheel drive is not available, the car's suspension has been heightened by and an exclusive yellow colour is available as an option. A version with pink accent and exclusive pink color A version with red, white and blue stripes running from front to back vertically and 53s on the doors, hood and trunk, made to resemble the paint job of Herbie The Love Bug, is being sold exclusively in Spain. The Final Edition is the final version of the model with two colors that were tributes to past Beetle models: Safari Uni Beige and Stonewashed Blue.
Volkswagen Beetle NSU-based and larger K70. None of these models, aimed at more upscale markets, achieved the level of success of the Beetle. The over-reliance on a single model, now in decline, meant that Volkswagen was in financial crisis by 1974. It needed German government funding to produce the Beetle's replacement. Production lines at Wolfsburg switched to the new water-cooled, front-engined, front-wheel-drive Golf designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1974, sold in North America at the time as the "Rabbit". The Golf eventually became Volkswagen's most successful model since the Beetle. It was periodically redesigned over its lifetime, with only a few components