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The color scheme makes me think of Google, unfortunately.
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Specific to VW paint job called Harlequin. Looks terrible but is legit OEM paintjob and is super rare to see in the wild. If you saw one, consider yourself lucky. 10 times the luck if you saw one somewhere outside Germany.
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Looks terrible
Agree to disagree, I think it’s fun and whimsical. People take their cars too seriously nowadays.
To me, it just is a special kind of whimsical. I maybe not gonna like it as much as many nice colors some cars offer. But I’d take it over modern black/white/gray painted cars any day.
It looks like an old beat up car for which the owner bought used body parts and didn’t bother painting them.
Knowing nothing about this car I assumed it was just a Jamaican custom paint job, as it’s pretty much the Jamaican colors
I think the name Harlequin was a US thing? I remember them being called Color Concept in Europe, available on Golf and the Polo, from what I recall.
can’t find anything regarding the name. Seems like they were always called harlequin.
The only difference is, that the US market got Polos and EU got Golfs
“The only difference is, that the US market got Polos and EU got Golfs”
US market got Golfs, not Polos.
Not even just rare, but each color combination is unique
There are websites who track their current known status
Used to do track days and car meets a lot (pre-cars and coffee stuff)… I’ve seen a few of these, always crazy to see them as a lot of people had no clue what they were.
It would be nice if car manufacturers made fun, affordable, reliable cars again. Instead of monster trucks or high end luxury cars with paid electric limited performance packages.
That particular generation of Golf had some insane issues that only a German company could engineer. Did you know that the coolant tank would start leaking, and the symptoms showed up after coolant had wicked up the wiring harness and started shorting out the gauge cluster?
Similar to Mercedes oil traveling up the harness and I think GM also.
This car is dressed like it’s got a sitcom on UPN.
This should have been the livery for runabouts on Voyager.
Do you mean DS9? I’m pretty sure Voyager had regular shuttles and the Delta Flyer.
Don’t think DS9 aired on UPN in my area, small shuttle craft naming conventions aside.
I was curious what color would be used for the registration for these. Online it says that either the chassis/unibody determined the base color or they were registered as “multi-colored”.
I for one would love to see more colorful cars on the market :)
The rear quarter panel is the original chassis paint and registration color. This one’s red.
But would you buy one?
A VW Harlequin specifically? No. But if there was a newer, quality car at a reasonable price in equally bright colors and a more coordinated pattern, I would absolutely consider it.
Repair shop down the street has had one on their lot for 3 or 4 years now, now I know why…
edit Street view or it didn’t happen:
now I know why…
Why?
It gets people’s attention maybe?
Ain’t nothing but a heartache
Tell me why?
31 year old VW…
The one left of it is about 60 years old
What country is this? The Golf next to the Ford is odd. I didn’t think they even had Golfs in the US, and some of those other cars look too big for most countries in Europe.
There are Golfs in the US.
There were Golfs for decades in the US, and we initially sold them as Rabbits, and built tons in Pennsylvania. Now they only sell the GTI and R32, but no standard Golf as it were.
So many Golfs in the US. They sold a lot of mk. 3 & 4 Golfs here.
It’s like a kindergartener was asked to pick out paints.
The Benetton Polo, there was a golf too and an F1 team
Found it :)
I had a jacket like that c. 1991. It was fly
I’ve been trying to remember what those were called, would love to try and get my hands on one.
I think they were called Technicolor Dreamcoats
Or possibly a play parachute
I’m guessing you’re a white guy
uh-huh uh-huh
give it to me baby!
A-ha a-ha!
I know a second hand shop that sells them.
Ok bear with me:
A Fiat Multipla with this paint.
Not just any Multipla.
The 1300 horsepower 1000tipla:
Is that the pope car?
It’s a custom Multipla built by French YouTube channel Vilebrequin.
The channel ended but one of the guys created his own, and has started a new project: reach 500km/h with a Citroen Xantia.
Wow, I was JUST looking for this color scheme yesterday, to recreate it in My Summer Car.
The driver’s mobile phone:
One of my teacher had a phone like that, but she drove a convertible 1995 Ford Mustang, and smoked using a cigarette holder.
Not sure what is says about my school…
The driver’s houseIf she was a Latin teacher, that’s par for the course.
She was not, she was a teacher providing extra help for those of us who needed it. She had a calm office where students with some extra difficulties got the help they needed.
Günther, we have all zese Body Panels in different kolors wat do we do wir zem?
Just Slap zem together and kall it a speshal Edition ja?
Almost. They made one car for a trade show to show off some new paint finishing skills. People saw it and wanted it so they made more of it.
Naw it was a throwback to Beetle advertising from the 60s.
And
Das auto
Adjusted for inflation and converted to USD: $36,694.75
Golf GTI S has a starting MSRP of $34,590
And let me tell you, they are not close to the same car.
Take off the glasses, mate
