On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:15:11 -0500, wrote:

They were still selling them in Mexico until pretty recently tho.

They have (or had) a large assembly plant in Mexico and the bugs were
all over the place last time I was there, by far the most common
vehicle on the road in Mexico City 10 years ago.

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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:09:34 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:15:11 -0500, wrote:

They were still selling them in Mexico until pretty recently tho.
They have (or had) a large assembly plant in Mexico and the bugs were
all over the place last time I was there, by far the most common
vehicle on the road in Mexico City 10 years ago.

We were in a VW cab the last time I was in the Yucatan


We rented a Golf or something like it, to drive from Cancun to Mérida to
Tulum and about a zillion points in between. I think we spent a total of
four hours in Cancun, and most of that was at the airport. Took a day
trip by ferry to Isla Mujeres, rented motor scooters. I understand that
little island is now also overdeveloped.

On Dec 6, 1:24*pm, "H the K (I post with a Mac)"
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wrote:
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:09:34 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:15:11 -0500, wrote:

They were still selling them in Mexico until pretty recently tho.
They have (or had) a large assembly plant in Mexico and the bugs were
all over the place last time I was there, by far the most common
vehicle on the road in Mexico City 10 years ago.

We were in a VW cab the last time I was in the Yucatan

We rented a Golf or something like it, to drive from Cancun to Mérida to
Tulum and about a zillion points in between. I think we spent a total of
four hours in Cancun, and most of that was at the airport. Took a day
trip by ferry to Isla Mujeres, rented motor scooters. I understand that
little island is now also overdeveloped.

Yeah, sure everyone here believes you.....NOT.

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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:24:59 -0500, "H the K (I post with a Mac)"
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:09:34 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:15:11 -0500, wrote:

They were still selling them in Mexico until pretty recently tho.
They have (or had) a large assembly plant in Mexico and the bugs were
all over the place last time I was there, by far the most common
vehicle on the road in Mexico City 10 years ago.
We were in a VW cab the last time I was in the Yucatan

We rented a Golf or something like it, to drive from Cancun to Mérida to
Tulum and about a zillion points in between. I think we spent a total of
four hours in Cancun, and most of that was at the airport. Took a day
trip by ferry to Isla Mujeres, rented motor scooters. I understand that
little island is now also overdeveloped.

That was a pretty round about trip. Talum is just south of Cancun,
Mérida is on the other side of the Yucatan

That is where we went through Mexican customs, then we got back on the
plane and flew to Cancun.
It was funny because they didn't turn off the engines on the plane.
I could imagine the pilot (in a Cheech Marin accent) saying "hey man,
don't shut off the motor, I got a bad battery"

The drive-around trip was a oneymoon trip...two weeks in Mexico. I had
been to Cancun 20 years earlier, when there were only a couple of new
hotels. On the second trip, we realized we had made the right decision
by limiting our time in Cancun.

Mérida was well-worth a two day stopover.

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:18:23 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:09:34 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:15:11 -0500, wrote:

They were still selling them in Mexico until pretty recently tho.

They have (or had) a large assembly plant in Mexico and the bugs were
all over the place last time I was there, by far the most common
vehicle on the road in Mexico City 10 years ago.

We were in a VW cab the last time I was in the Yucatan

Yes, most of the cabs in Mexico City are bugs also. I was there on
business for a couple of weeks and we had some of the strictest
security precautions I've ever seen. In order to get a cab it had to
be called by one of our people from an approved account. They would
give me a car number and a password. My instructions were to not get
in the cab unless the number matched, and the driver told me the
password. It was interesting. Most of the drivers spoke little or
no english and me espanol es mucho un poquito.