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The Volkswagen Beetle is a compact car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen introduced in 2011 for the 2012 model year, as the successor to the New Beetle. It features a lower profile while retaining an overall shape recalling the original Volkswagen Beetle.

One of Volkswagen's goals with this Beetle model was to give it a more aggressive appearance while giving it aspects of the original Beetle's design, which it has achieved with its new dimensions.[1][2] This distances the new model from the intermediate Volkswagen New Beetle, produced from 1997 to 2011, which while popular with women and homosexuals never approached achieving the success of the original.[3]

The A5 'Beetle' is longer than the New Beetle (now 4,278 mm (168.4 in) and sharing the A5 (PQ35) platform with the current Volkswagen Jetta. It also has a lower profile, 12 mm (0.5 in) shorter than its predecessor, and 88 mm (3.5 in) wider. The boot is now 310 L (11 cu ft), up from 209 L (7.4 cu ft). The second generation Beetle is being built alongside the Jetta, Golf Variant and the old Jetta ("Clásico") at Volkswagen's plant in Puebla, Mexico.[4]

Volkswagen projects that a convertible version will follow the coupe in 2012.[5] A performance version, called Beetle R, is projected to follow later.
The first special edition of the 2012 Beetle is the Black Turbo launch edition. It will be limited to 600 cars on the U.S. market and will be the first car available through Volkswagen's new Vehicle Pre-Order program.[10]

A Beetle Turbo Black made an appearance at the 30th annual Wörthersee Treffen in June 2011 in Reifnitz, Austria. It was located on the floating barge showcase at the entrance to the show. Other cars on the barge included a Reifnitz Edition GTI and the Touareg Racer. A heavily modified in-house electric-powered Beetle, called E-Bugster, was unveiled at 2012 North American International Auto Show.[11] Unlike other new Beetles, the E-Bugster is a two-seater instead of 2+2.

A convertible version of the hatchback was unveiled at the 2012 Los Angeles auto show for the 2013 model year. The convertible version is available with both the 2.0 liter turbo 4 cylinder, 2.5 inline 5 cylinder gasoline and 2.0 liter diesel engines. Transmission will be a five- and six-speed manual and the fast-shifting six-speed DSG automatic. Volkswagen also presented three special editions to 'celebrate the new convertible variant'. "Fifties", "Sixties", and "Seventies" special editions which featured special period accurate colors, wheels, and interior options. These "authentic reproductions", as Volkswagen calls them, will be sold in Europe this summer and the U.S. in 2013.
The new model retains the front-engine, front-wheel drive layout of the first generation, while improving interior packaging with more room in the rear.[5] Four-cylinder engine options for the European market are expected to include 1.2-litre (77 kW (105 PS; 103 bhp)), 1.4-litre (118 kW (160 PS; 158 bhp)) and 2.0-litre (147 kW (200 PS; 197 bhp)) TSI petrol engines, and 1.6-litre (78 kW (106 PS; 105 bhp)) and 2.0-litre (103 kW (140 PS; 138 bhp)) TDI diesel engines. In addition to the 2.0-litre TSI and TDI engines the North American market retains the 2.5-litre (125 kW (170 PS; 168 bhp)) straight-five engine found in the previous Beetle.[4][5][9]

All engines for this model are offered with an option of a six-speed manual transmission or the option of a dual-clutch DSG automatic. In the United States transmissions on petrol models come with either a five-speed manual or optional six-speed automatic on 2.5 L models, while on the clean diesel model there is the option of a DSG six-speed dual-clutch transmission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle_%28A5%29