What's that sound?

I remember when I was a kid, one day the news was all about the funny looking "Beetle", as VW signed up it's first dealer in my state, and the exciting thing about it was it got over 25 mile per gallon.  This at a time when the standard Detroit barge got 14 mpg, gas was 35 cents a gallon and my dad was making $5.05 cutting sheet metal at Cessna.

Here we are again with another funny looking VW, but this time it gets 261 mpg.  It's a limited production car, they will make 250 and they are not for sale.  They will be leased to 250 approved drivers.  But 261 mpg, damn.  OK it's no hot rod though like the original Beetle, given enough road it can climb to high speeds, 100 mph they say, but with a motor of around 87 HP finely tuned engine and electric assist, it accelerates slow, I imagine like the old VW Vanagon, did you ever drive one, you didn't fly up any steep hills, but you got there and it was a fun ride, hopefully this one isn't as noisy.  If the results are good, the car may go into mass production, and you can hear the assholes clinching tight  over at big oil.