I've seen a trend with these cars. About 1 out of 4 VW new Beetle cars has a flower in the cup holder. What does this mean? I never see flowers in cup holders on any other type of car.|||because the new beetle is a gay car|||It's not a cup holder, they installed a little vase made specifically for a flower on the dash by the steering wheel. The Beetle was a trademark of the 60's Flower Power Hippie era and a lot of beetles are remembered by that so to ad the vase and the flower is kinda like and link and representation of the past and what the Beetle is known for.|||Because they are old hippies and hippies drove old bugs. Old bugs had vases that were mounted to the dash (option). The vase held flowers. The scent of the flower helped cover up the odor from the stinky hippie. Hippies do not like to shower or wear deodorant so they stink and then try to cover their stench with patchouli oil and flowers. It kinda works. Are you sure the flower is in the cuo holder and not a vase attached to the dash?
Flowers sure look better than a pine tree hanging from the mirror.|||They are trying to recreate an era gone by "Flower power" VW vans were in high use amongst the hippie generation as they were a vehicle that was reliable for the hippies (did not see garages half as often as domestics and basically Ford and Chev did not have a van/campmobile during those days. VW always had one which was decked out like a mini motorhome. And cheap to buy and run. The hippies were the start to the environmental movement in the 60's. VW corporation caught on to the idea/theme with a flower power bug paint job on their 1971 Beetle, I think? Or it may have been the '73 SuperBeetle, in which they placed a vase inside instead of an ashtray.
Although, you had to supply your own weed.|||I find it hard to figure the people that seem to think that " hippies " had something to do with this.
Truth of the matter is this, cars of all makes used to have these vases. They added some fresh color to the inside of the older cars. The yrs that used these vases where in the early yrs from the buggy days up until the late 40s.
They had nothing to do with smell from hippies, besides as a person who grew up in the San Fran counter-culture of the 60s we never had these vases nor did anyone add them, many days spent riding in VWs is proff enough.|||Flower power was a slogan of the 60s and 70s hippies and the VW decorated with a flower motif was a popular car in their culture. The new VW has a vase and flowers as a dealer installed option perhaps trying to recreate that nostalgic era.|||The New Beetle comes standard with a flower vase attached next to the steering wheel. While some people might put a flag in there, it is really designed for flowers. Nothing else will really fit.
I don't believe that there are any other cars that come standard with a installed flower vase.|||It's for nostalgic purposes.|||'CAUSE IT'S THERE.
WHAT DO YOU PUT IN YOUR CUP HOLDERS,GLOVE BOX,TRUNK?
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