Sunday, 6. October 2002

Mexico City's Volkswagen taxi bugs to be exterminated


There's one sure way to know you're in Mexico City: the rounded, green and white Volkswagen bug taxis sputtering and darting along the clogged streets. But the city's government is planning their slow extermination. Mexico is the only country where the old-style Volkswagen bug -- as opposed to the new Beetle -- is still produced, and the car is hugely popular with Mexico City's traffic-savvy taxi drivers. It is as much as symbol as the yellow taxi is in New York.

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