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Originally Posted by Pushing Fifty
It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the original air-cooled Beetle had continued in the US beyond 1979. I'm surprised that there wasn't a massive protest when it was dropped. But thanks to tougher emission and safety standards, this is all hindsight. I went to Mexico back in 1995 and remember how weird it was to see brand new Beetles driving around. Many of them were taxi cabs!
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They were phased out as taxis in Mexico after the law was changed to require all taxis to have four doors.
I'd imagine there were so many beetles on the road in 1979 that nobody thought twice about it. I'm not old enough to have been buying cars in that year so I can't do any more than speculate.