Ahem. I happen to have a 2002 Beetle Turbo S.
My wife would probably not agree with your assessment.
(btw, 0-60 in 6 seconds -- personally clocked -- and a top speed of 220 kph -- though I've only gone to 180, doesn't sound like a chick car to me -- I call it my "poor man's TT")
I bought a new 1980 VW Rabbit Diesel back in 1980. The stripped C model. I could go 0 to 60 in about six hours and it would go over 80 MPH if you drove it off a tall cliff.
Joking aside. I really loved that car. I was getting ready to separate from the Air force and finish college and that car got me 50 MPG on the highway and around 41 MPG combined. There were months during my college years that I spent $10 on fuel and yet I lived eight miles from the campus, plus I had a job.