A cold blooded, old hot-rod VW comes in handy sometimes.

[steve_pugh]

This is typical.      Everyone will dog the VW for being unreliable and old.   
But 3yrs ago when My little one was about to be born, the wife crashed her FTO into the back of a landrover.
And then the Diesel fuel pump went in the main family car.   Was gonna cost nearly a grand to fix and we didn't have the money.
It was november and the baby was due in January.   So the only car in the family that worked at was reliable?!  Yep.  The 1972 VW Beetle. With no heating.
We went everywhere in that, including a work night out in the snow where Gem had the ice scraper and was scraping ice off the windscreen on the INSIDE as I was driving.     
It was brill. 
Then when the baby gave it's nod that he was ready to come out, we went to the hospital in the beetle.   And we brought him home in the beetle.   So his first EVER car journey out in the real world was in this car.
It had a 4-1 with no muffler and was deafeningly loud and set off car alarms wherever it went but he still went to sleep on his way home from the hospital.
Guess he'd been used to it the last few months inside.   

Love my VW.

[Lee.C]

Cool story 

[wolfswest]

This is typical.      Everyone will dog the VW for being unreliable and old.   
But 3yrs ago when My little one was about to be born, the wife crashed her FTO into the back of a landrover.
And then the Diesel fuel pump went in the main family car.   Was gonna cost nearly a grand to fix and we didn't have the money.
It was november and the baby was due in January.   So the only car in the family that worked at was reliable?!  Yep.  The 1972 VW Beetle. With no heating.
We went everywhere in that, including a work night out in the snow where Gem had the ice scraper and was scraping ice off the windscreen on the INSIDE as I was driving.     
It was brill. 
Then when the baby gave it's nod that he was ready to come out, we went to the hospital in the beetle.   And we brought him home in the beetle.   So his first EVER car journey out in the real world was in this car.
It had a 4-1 with no muffler and was deafeningly loud and set off car alarms wherever it went but he still went to sleep on his way home from the hospital.
Guess he'd been used to it the last few months inside.   

Love my VW.

Great story! 

[Jesse Wens]

My mom totaled the car when she was pregnant of me, she got a beetle as a replacement car from the shop. A also got used to the sound of a beetle before being born.
Look what happened to me