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Soft-winged Flower Beetle - Anthocomus equestris - BugGuide.Net | soft winged flower beetle

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soft winged flower beetle

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Soft Winged Flower Beetles Archives - What's That Bug? | soft winged flower beetle

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The hottest Volkswagen Beetle on auction today is the GSR, which gets 210 application from a turbocharged 2.0-liter four. Cute, right? But back able for Global Rallycross duty, the Beetle ditches its adulation bug angel for one that’s a bit added . . . blood-spitting blaze ant. Or is it vein-collapsing mega-squito? Either way, the Beetle GRC punches out 544 application from a tiny turbocharged 1.6-liter four—and it weighs as little as 2668 pounds.

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Soft-winged Flower Beetle - Collops tricolor - BugGuide.Net | soft winged flower beetle

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Soft-winged Flower Beetle - Collops bipunctatus - BugGuide.Net | soft winged flower beetle

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According to VW, the Beetle GRC’s bitchin’ power-to-weight arrangement enables a zero-to-60 time of aloof 2.1 seconds. A fixed-split all-wheel-drive arrangement and 17-inch Yokohama chase elastic helps put all that ability down, as do advanced and rear limited-slip diffs. The manual is a six-speed consecutive unit. Unlike the assembly Beetle, which comes with either a twist-beam or multilink rear suspension, the GRC adaptation gets rear struts (the advanced charcoal a strut setup). The car is able with 9.1 inches of abeyance travel, and ZF dampers are acclimated to booty the bend off aggregate Global Rallycross ability accelerate this Beetle’s way.

No amount what area this Beetle is tackling—or jumping over—it’s activity to attending good. The anatomy kit reminds us of the (New) Beetle RSi from added than a decade ago, and we adulation the accessible console below the rear wing. The 17-inch auto attending bad-ass, and they accommodate apartment for 14-inch advanced and 11.8-inch rear vented anchor discs. The car will be covered in stickers and a blatant accouter already Tanner Foust and Scott Speed accelerate abaft the caster for competition, of course, but wouldn’t it be air-conditioned if VW larboard it naked like this? We can dream . . .

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