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Millennium Bug: A Pictorial Scrapbook of the VW Beetle

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Just a quick note to answer the two unsatisfied customers above. Shame that one of them cannot bring himself to leave his name (which suggests his views are not worth considering...). Sorry you thought it "cheesey" and that I should stick to what I do best, rather than write about VWs. Sorry, but that's my job, as founding editor of VolksWorld magazine etc.... On the matter of the two South American references from our other friend, by way of defence, the pic of Mexico City was actually marked up by Volkswagen's archive department as Brazil. Never having been there, I had to take VW's word! In the other picture caption, I do not actually say that the car is from Brazil - just South America. Sorry to be picky but we authors have a hard enough time as it is! I hope everyone enjoys the book as much as I did doing the pic research. Just wait for the next two from me due out in 2002.

Covers everything from the Beetles' origins in pre-war Germany, thru to the new Beetle. Detailed photographs and literature charting the progress of this little car. The original VW sales brochures' artwork are now classics in their own right.

Good sections on history, racing, customizing and "odd" Beetles (the stretch-limo-bug has to be seen, to be believed!). Also looks briefly at Karmann Ghias and other 'sister' cars.

Written in a non-anorak style that makes for easy reading.

Excellent, thoroughly recommended to anyone!

My favorite thing about this book is that it's for ALL beetle owners/drivers/fans. It covers the original beetles and the New Beetle. History buffs will also appreciate the history of the Volkswagen company, as well as how the Beetle was started and where it is today. Definitely worth the price :-)

I'm only a novice Bug collector, and don't claim to be any kind of an expert on Volkswagens. The information, and pictures in this book was very helpful to me. I can't understand why the negative comments from others. Could it be envy? If they have so much knowledge about the Volkswagens why do they hesitate about writing their own book. I would buy it.

I try to buy all the new Beetle books since I am a Bug collector. This one is an embarassment, especially at the price. There ae so many errors and the production quality is cheesey. For the same price I bought Dan Ouellette's book and got a great piece of research and fun reading. The author of this book should stick to whatever else he does for a living, not writing about Volkswagens

It's a pitty that so many good pictures have been labeled the wrong way. Page 84: That is the Mexico City main plaza with a bunch of "vochos", as we name them. Is not Brazil! . Page 82: The multi-colored "vocho" is not Brazilian, it's Mexican. Brazil never produced fuel-injected beetles!. You can notice that by the single muffler on the left-hand side of the rear end. In fact, this fuel-injection design has only been used in Mexico from 1993. And more and more pictures mislabeled!

I think Keith Seume should apply himself and not let this kind of errors appear on his books. Actually this book is a great collection of pictures worth nothing.