A few decades ago, this car would have attracted V-Dub fanbois for thousands of miles around, but things change, I guess. However, I still find the idea of a manual transmission equipped VW wagon with a turbocharged engine and all-wheel-drive to be some kind of automotive nirvana. Maybe not as much of a Valhalla as […]
This next car comes as a tip from Dave in Tampa who writes: This has got to be a mistake, right? A broken odometer maybe? If that’s really the miles this should be on a dealership floor reminding people how cool VW used to be. Or has the Find this 1985 Volkswagen Cabriolet offered for […]
The TDI GOlf is known for its ruggedness and fuel efficiency, but it isn’t known as a good car for sleeping at night. Sure, you could drop the rear seat backs and maybe sleep occasionally in a stock Golf, but if you plan to living in a MkIV, you are going to need to get […]
Yesterday we celebrated Syncro de Mayo, DT’s May 5th celebration of Volkswagen’s four wheel drive system known as Syncro. Todays late entry into our symphony of synchronicity might not have used the Syncro name in its advertising literature, but the R32 Golf MkIV puts power from its VR6 engine into a haldex controlled center diff […]
The second generation Volkswagen Golf was a significant upgrade to the original Mk 1 Golf in the safety, comfort, and refinement categories, but it is still slow compared to anything built in the last 20 years. However, today’s Mk 2 Golf has been given an injection of speed with a 2.7 V6 BiTurbo swap from […]
What’s up with people putting random pieces of fruit in multiple pics in a car listing. Remember the guy with the orange in the Bricklin SV-1 listing? This one. Yeah, that was weird, but today we’ve got a banana in the passenger seat of a VW Golf. Maybe it’s a anti-theft device — you just […]
This next car comes as a tip from Carter who writes: A good price no matter what. If this is real, it’s an excellent looking deal. And a sweet car. And an excellent deal. Only draw back is that it is remote. St Albans is all the way up in Northwestern VT between burlington and […]
Sometimes wheels ruin the look of a car…and sometimes they take it to the next level. The Ronal R10 Turbo wheels on this next car are a considerable improvement over the typical stock steelies you’ll find on a diesel Rabbit, and you might forget how stupifiyingly slow the car is when you look at those […]
These next two cars make for an interesting comparison because they are both front-wheel-drive and equipped with a 5-speed manual gearbox, but the similarities end there. In fact, the thing that makes these car even remotely interesting to compare is that they are sold by the same seller in one craigslist advert. Would you prefer this 2009 Volkswagen Golf offered for $4000 or 1994 Mercury Tracer offered for $1200 in Hartford, CT via craigslist. Tip from ME
It seems like only yesterday when Volkswagen Cabrios seemed to clog SoCal freeways with their tops down and in the sun. A few decades later, and I have to wonder where they went? Probably to the crusher by the thousands, but the few that remain are pretty beaten up, so it is nice to find […]