The VW Beetle warns of its advance. In all my years of driving the original Beetle, I don't think I've ever hit an animal. They're too scared. They hear you coming a full half-mile away. We can't hear them.
Animals run for their lives.
Just be lucky you can see at all. Next to the blank wall of a cargo van, the original Beetle has the worst sight-lines ever to appear in an automobile. It makes the visibility in the deep-sea sub they used to discover the Titanic look like a sun porch. Lane changing in an old VW can be a real adventure. Since there's no rearview mirror on the passenger side, you have to crane your neck 180 degrees around and pray you don't plow into the vehicle in front of you while picking a line through traffic.