TV star Jay Leno became one of the first people outside Volkswagen to drive the new Beetle during a visit to Wolfsburg. But first the TV star, one of the greatest car collectors in the world, drove a 1938 version, one of the oldest drivable models in existence. It might have just 18kW, he said, but it really did not feel 73 years old. The new 2012 Beetle has a two-litre turbocharged engine, putting out almost ten times the power of the 1938 edition with an engine of little more than double the size.

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