[…] at those angled steering wheels; and, while I have only driven a beetle in the tropics where roads are often a series of monumental potholes, ridges, and corrugations, there is no reason to think that the 1500 would be any less safe.
1968, Trail and Timberline, issues 589-612, page 47:
On September 27, 1968, Rich Schaefer and the author drove a beetle to the San Luis Valley, and from the town of Moffat turned toward the microtown of Crestone.
1986, G. C. Edmondson, C. M. Kotlan, The Cunningham Equations→ISBN, page 161:
The wide wheel base overlapped the cement strips. "I see why you drive a beetle." "Only because I couldn't get a Model A."
2001, Nelson Bossman Soroh, A sailor's dream: autobiography of Rear Admiral Nelson, page 159:
At the end of the course they each drove a beetle car home through Europe. The first half of the course was mainly on torpedo and anti submarine work. It was quite tedious.
