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Cars and Transportation

Taste it!: Taking a Beetle to the World Cup

June 18, 2014

It’s a story about two longtime friends, a Volkswagen Beetle, and the dream of a World Cup soccer title. In 1970, two young Brazilians set off on a road trip to the soccer World Cup in Mexico. A once-in-a-lifetime experience - but 44 years later, Ivan Charoux and Rafael Sawaya decided to relive it.

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This time, they’re in a 1967 Beetle headed for São Paulo, but they’re hoping that Brazil will once again take the title.