From Hudson’s Bay down to the Yucatan Peninsula, expect to see a lot more Beetles and Jettas on the road over the next couple of years. Volkswagen intends to bolster its standing as the world’s third largest auto manufacturer by capturing a larger share of the North American market, VW board chairman Ferdinand Piech told reporters in Florida Monday (November 9) during the unveiling of three new models. As VW’s North America boss Jens Neumann elaborated, the company expects to sell roughly 220,000 vehicles in Canada, Mexico and the United States this year. By 2000, VW and Audi, its up-market subsidiary, project combined North American sales of a half million vehicles. The U.S. will account for roughly two-thirds of those sales, if the company’s projections prove reliable. Volkswagen is betting that the New World will give as warm a welcome to its three newly introduced models - the Golf IV, the Golf Cabrio and the new Jetta - as it has to the reborn Beetle. Like the Beetle, the North American Golfs and Jettas are being produced in the central Mexican city of Puebla. The Puebla works is currently the only VW facility producing Beetles, and it recently increased daily production from 450 to 600 vehicles to keep up with demand. By the beginning of 2000, Piech and Neumann said, the Puebla plant should be turning out 800 Beetles a day.