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This commercial has a surprise in it. At the and you can watch a beetle being driven into the water. Funny is the text in the commercial says: allthough the beetle does definately float, it will not float indefinately. Fun! From the DVD 'Legend on wheels'. ”, the answer is yes: the original Volkswagen Beetle would indeed float on water. However, it is certainly not recommended that you experiment with this. The original Volkswagen Beetle was essentially a unibody car built on a floor pan, with very few openings and well sealed doors. If there are no holes in the floor pan and all the seals are good, VW Bugs will float. Right now, after what--30 or 40 years collecting pan holes and dry-rotted seals?--you should not try it. Oh yes...on the 1970 and later Bugs there are those little grilles behind the back windows. The key selling features of a Beetle demonstrated in a 1972 VW commercial. Never mind gas mileage and safety, does it float? The VW will definitely float, but it will not float indefinitely. 1  Entertainment. 2  Standard YouTube License. Posts: 10,933. I don't know about float, but I do know that if you open both doors at the side entrance of a dorm building and remove the center post, you can drive a bug right into the building and down the dorm hallway. In the ad below, the Beetle is driven into the water and floats along for a few seconds on camera. We are told that, although the Beetle does definitely float, it will not float indefinitely.. Another 60s print ad introduced us to Stanley Siegel, a journalist who decided to expose the myth around floating Volkswagen Beetles. He drove a Volkswagen Beetle into Beetle Creek in Wisconsin, expecting it to sink to the bottom, and it floated. The surprised journalist stated, These things really do float!. Siegel achieved the unexpected – he provided proof that the Volkswagen Beetle floats.
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