The Week contest: RIP Bug
This week's question: Volkswagen has announced that it will stop production of its iconic Beetle car in 2019, 80 years after the curvy automobile first hit the streets. In seven words or fewer, please come up with a pithy headline for an obituary of VW's much-loved Bug.
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THE WINNER: "The Bug Stops Here"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania
SECOND PLACE: "Shabby Road: The End of the Beetles"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
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THIRD PLACE: "That’s All, Volks"
John Blumenthal, Rye, New York
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Herbie-cide"
Miguel Villasin, Orange, California
"A Bug’s Life, and Death"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Bug B Gone"
Lou Franzini, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
"Auf VWiedersehen"
Catherine Pomiecko, Natick, Massachusetts
"DeBugged"
Colleen McCabe, Madison, Wisconsin
"Beetle’s Juice Has Run Out"
Penny Lengyel, Roseville, California
"VW Will Bug You No More"
Suzanne Beck, Bedford, New Hampshire
"Bug out"
Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina
"The Bug... Driven to Extinction"
Carole J. Mabus, Fort Pierce, Florida
"The Beetles Farewell Tour"
Lori Weiss, Jupiter, Florida