Watch a Hippie VW Beetle Get Shredded to Pieces. Published: 19 Nov 2013, 12:42 UTC • By: Andrei Tutu. 1 photo. Photo: screenshot from Youtube.

From the hippie favorite of the 1960s to the sleeker model of the last decade, the Volkswagen Beetle has roamed American roads. Now VW introduces a redesigned Beetle.

The Volkswagen Beetle — the curvy car developed at Adolf Hitler’s direction that became an improbable symbol of the hippie counterculture of the 1960s — is set to become a thing of the past.

It's rare for an automaker to run a TV ad that does not include a single shot of a new car. But that is what VW is doing with a hippie-filled spot touting its new six-year/72,000-mile bumper-to ...