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Volkswagen Beetle Featured in Britney Spears I Wanna Go Video

Gone are the days that good products sell themselves, as carmakers have huge, multi-million dollar budgets to spend on product placement. The Beetle is a good-looking car in its new-found unisex guise, but Volkswagen probably doesn’t want to take any chances.

As a result the 2012 model was featured in Britney Spears’ brand-new video, called "I Wanna Go". A bright-red version is featured and it gets plenty of coverage. The pop star flashes a cop at about the 1 minute and 18 seconds and she is subsequently bent over and patted down and searched for... lost sexiness, we think.

What’s amazing is that the Beetle gets about 40 seconds of air-time, but we won’t bother with details of the clip, as we’re not Britney fans.

As this clip appeal the most to the pop star’s US fans, we’ll remind you that the you can buy the 2012 VW Beetle for as little as $19,765 (including destination charge). For the money, you get the ancient 170HP 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine and a five-speed manual gearbox, which combine to offer an estimated 22 mpg city and 31 mpg highway. Standard features include split folding rear seat, aux-in for portable audio players, a leather steering wheel, 17-inch alloys, and an eight-speaker audio system.

For those looking to spend a little more, VW offers a 2.0-liter TSI version, powered by the same engine as the GTI, which provides 200 hp and 207 lb-ft of peak torque. Pricing for the model starts at $24,165 (incl. destination). This version comes with added Bluetooth, iPod connectivity, three-color ambient lighting, larger brakes with red calipers, a "kaeferfach" additional glovebox that is similar to that of the original Beetle, sport seating surfaces, 18-inch alloy wheels, a rear spoiler, fog lights, three additional gauges on the dashboard, and alloy pedals.


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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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