Perhaps you now expect a report of open driving. Of course, with the side windows completely down and without wind deflector. Youth and dynamism unfortunately, we can not offer at this point. But hair in the wind are just as possible as with any other convertible.

But much more interesting is the comparison with the Golf Cabriolet where the two will offered finally at the same time and with mostly the same engine. The Golf in any case is more expensive in the basic equipment about 2,500 euros and is produced in the Karmann factory in Osnabrück (meanwhile VW owned) instead in Mexico.

In both, the roof can be quickly folded electrically, but the Beetle expects a tarpaulin as a coating, while the Golf top requiring much less effort disappears under a flap. The top is processed slightly better than that of the Beetle and offers thanks to its complete disappearance a better look directly backwards.

Since the underbody comes in both cases from the Golf 6, one looks instead of the kerb weight rather to the respective volumes. The determines in the more rounded rear clearly to the detriment of the Beetle. The rear seat has almost traditionally a smaller width. More steep one sits and therefore prefers front where the Beetle most likely to compete with the Golf.

The various small disadvantages of the Beetle Convertible, one seems to know at VW also because it gives to the difference in price without charge a radio opposed to the Golf , and not even the cheapest. Incidentally, the difference in price of about 250 euros will more bearable with the smallest TDI power drive. The range of possible gearboxes corresponds to the number of possible engines at least in the Beetle. The Golf not entirely because the in addition will be offered with 90 kW petrol.

Let us look to the drive technology, there we notice the relatively large difference in the top speed with 10 km and more. Not that the should be driven necessarily, but it shows the aerodynamic qualities of the 'more angular' Golf compared with the supposedly more rounded Beetle. At the CO₂emissions, the difference is hardly present, suggesting a doubt once again on the practicality of this test. In practice, the consumption is expected to differ more especially on the highway.

This is quite a conflicting car. The doors are very wide, difficult to grip and the exit difficult at close parking. Unlike before, there does not exist any more a real running board, so that the door hinges were offset slightly inwards. The opening however, for the luggage compartment is small, so you have to be already careful with water boxes. One has the feeling of sitting deep, even when the seat is quite far up. In contrast, the noise through the roof is uncharacteristically low for a cabriolet at reasonable speed on the highway.

For these vehicles, in turn, typically is the bad rear visibility with the roof closed. In contrast advantageous: The dashboard of the Beetle, earlier extending far forward has become pleasantly shorter. But please look at the thankfully optional three dashboard instruments in Figure 9. So while the Golf convertible seems to call (not to scream) to the GTI version, the Beetle convertible fits rather the moderate diesel engine perhaps even with direct shift gearbox and creates cost consciousness and thus only partially irrationality. 08/13