Conceptual EV version of the recently launched 2012 Beetle

Volkswagen to Debut Beetle-Based Electric Hot Rod at the Detroit Motor Show

The conceptual EV version of the recently launched 2012 Beetle will sport a heavily modified body with a lowered roof and wider fenders with its looks slightly resembling the Volkswagen Ragster Concept (pictured above) that was displayed at the 2005 Detroit Motor Show.


Power of course will come from an electric motor fed by a battery pack.

We'll post an update as soon as we find out more. In the meantime, feel free to check out the pictures of the 2005 VW Ragster concept after the break.

DC Avanti is India’s First Sports Car, will Enter Production in 2013

India will soon have its own sport car thanks to DC Design’s Avanti that was launched at the 2012 New Delhi Auto Expo.


The Indian automotive industry, on the other hand, is best known as the country that manufactures the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano, which may or may not lose the title to the Bajaj RE60.

“Every country which has written its name in the pantheon of automobile manufacturing has invariably distinguished itself with sports cars by its own nationals and I thought that India rightly needs to be in this exclusive club”, said Chhabria. “The design is completely our very own as is the engineering and also the production process. Type approval and on-road tests would follow soon”.