Iconic Beetle on way out

AFTER selling it on and off in the US for nearly seven decades, Volkswagen has decided to squash its iconic Beetle.

The company’s American unit announced Thursday that it would end global production of the third-generation bulbous bug in July of next year after offering two special editions for sale.

The iconic car sold for about 30 years before US sales stopped in 1979. The last of the original bugs was produced in Puebla, Mexico, in 2003. It was revived in the US in 1998 as “New Beetle,” but it attracted mainly female buyers.