$495 buys you an option to purchase one of the 600 being built, but with no guarantee that your local dealership won't jack up the $24,950 MSRP owing to "Market Conditions."
But your unhumble Car Czar can confidently say that "Market Conditions" won't favor a dealer price hike on this car for three reasons.
1. The butching this cute little chick car takes in an attempt to appeal to male buyers is sort of like a three-day beard on Ashton Kutcher: A little more sinister looking, but you still know Bruce Willis can kick his ass.
2. Unlike most of today's blog photos, which show a simple, tasteful black Beetle rocking righteous chrome five-spokers, VW proposes to shoe the Black Turbo in hideous Adidas-inspired can't-go-out-tonight-I'm-still-cleaning-my-wheels busy-busy ten-spokers. The company also proposes to plaster "Turbo" on the lower door panels so that the owner's clear unease at being perceived a metrosexual may be fully advertised in 80s-style Sticker Compensation.
3. Yours Truly is an internet blogger and is unaccountably confident about everything.
Wait around for the standard turbo model and you will be rewarded with a 1/6-price 911 Turbo that's been dining on potato chips instead of prime rib. You'll get more back seat room and it will take you twice as long to floorboard your way into police custody.
Still, it's hard to believe any red-blooded male would forego the lower price and extra utility of a similarly-underpinned squarer-jawed GTI, unless to avoid the Scottish skirts VW insists on wrapping around the base seats.
Will the Y chromosome New New Beetle win its male conquest group?
Would you rather have a beer with Ashton or Bruce?
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