Photography courtesy Lazer Racing
[Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the February 2000 issue of GrassrootsMotorsports.]
The VW New Beetle may have been a hit in the dealerships and out on the show car circuit, but thanks to a somewhat high curb weight combined with meager power, it didn’t exactly make a major splash on the motorsports scene until New York’s Karl Scheible won …
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Way cool. I'm a sucker for rally cars that aren't from the usual suspects.
Very nice!
I'm 99% sure that car was still around, at least as of ~8 years ago. And still doing rallycross at least, not sure what else these days.
In reply to rslifkin :
Glad to hear the Beetle is still out there. And, dang, we ran that like 25 years ago?
David S. Wallens said:In reply to rslifkin :
Glad to hear the Beetle is still out there. And, dang, we ran that like 25 years ago?
Indeed! Apparently the world survived Y2K.
In reply to J.A. Ackley :
Funny, but I was working at a VW dealership selling those Beetles during the whole Y2K thing. Good times, good times....wait, they weren't great times. That came when I left the car business but not my love for things automotive.
Those were the days!
In 2000 we commenced building a Mk4 Golf and went on to win the 2001 ProRally national championship. The rally success of the beetle the previous year was one of the factors that encouraged us to move up to the new Mk4 chassis. Well, that and the almost limitless torque of the TDI.
so, not Rally, nor RallyCross... but is NewBeetle.... the above reminds me of the HPA twin-turbo VR6 AWD new beetle that ran OneLap back in 2007?
In reply to J.A. Ackley :
“Y2K? We got that.”
(Sharing this to make JG smile.)
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