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 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.
Huh. I hadn't realized that they stopped making the TSI.
I loved my '09 TDI & '12 GTI. Sadly traded in my golf for something that was more capable in the remote trails and forest roads as I frequently go camping in the mountains and the Golf was holding me back from that. My wife recently picked up a used TSI, and that's been fun to drive, but not nearly as fun as the GTIm
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.
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.
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.
Uses between 6 and 7 liters of gas. Which is better than your pickup truck
But worse than a modern diesel wagon or even midsize (huge by European standards) crossover SUV like an X5. I guess about the same as a modern petrol wagon like a Passat Variant then? Which can transport way more stuff, fit adults in the back seat and should even be able to tow a medium sized trailer (not a huge motorhome obviously).
We've come a LONG way in efficiency for internal combustion engines. Pickup trucks suck, but outside of the US they're not very common daily drivers anyway... and we have smaller ones. 2.0 diesel Ford Ranger is about on par with the fuel economy you claim for the Polo (is it really THAT high?). Same for some variants of the Toyota HiLux.
Once you put those 5 people in it, it is slow as fuck. I had a renault alliance when I was 18 and 4 people in that meant that I couldn't get enough speed to get out of 3rd. And going over the mountain pass in my home town was 2nd gear and 30mph at Best, on a 55mph road. Incredibly dangerous.
According to this source (German), the average gas consumption of privately-owned cars in Germany in 2023 was 7.8 liter per 100 km. So this 30 year old car, which is not all that fuel-efficient by modern standards, is still more efficient than what people drive today.
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 :)
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.
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?
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.
Genuine question: I thought it was spelled "harlequin" and I checked- Miriam Webster seems to think so too. Is this another "idiot american" thing I was unaware of?
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SW42@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 78d
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?
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com · 27 pts · 78d
Das auto
plyth@feddit.org · 13 pts · 78d
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.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 78d
Naw it was a throwback to Beetle advertising from the 60s.
And
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 78d
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:
Sturgist@piefed.ca · 18 pts · 78d
Why?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 78d
Ain't nothing but a heartache
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 78d
Tell me why?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 78d
31 year old VW...
Micromot@piefed.social · 6 pts · 78d
The one left of it is about 60 years old
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 77d
And in the same repair yard..😉
46_and_2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
It gets people's attention maybe?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 78d
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.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
There are Golfs in the US.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 78d
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.
odelik@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 76d
Huh. I hadn't realized that they stopped making the TSI.
I loved my '09 TDI & '12 GTI. Sadly traded in my golf for something that was more capable in the remote trails and forest roads as I frequently go camping in the mountains and the Golf was holding me back from that. My wife recently picked up a used TSI, and that's been fun to drive, but not nearly as fun as the GTIm
ClownStatue@piefed.social · 2 pts · 78d
So many Golfs in the US. They sold a lot of mk. 3 & 4 Golfs here.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 78d
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.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 78d
Agree to disagree, I think it's fun and whimsical. People take their cars too seriously nowadays.
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 78d
Knowing nothing about this car I assumed it was just a Jamaican custom paint job, as it's pretty much the Jamaican colors
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 78d
It looks like an old beat up car for which the owner bought used body parts and didn't bother painting them.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 78d
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.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 78d
Not even just rare, but each color combination is unique
There are websites who track their current known status
syaochan@feddit.it · 3 pts · 78d
Here (Italy) there was a driving school that used to have one of these
espentan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
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.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 77d
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
ptychodus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
"The only difference is, that the US market got Polos and EU got Golfs"
US market got Golfs, not Polos.
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
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.
Dearth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
A few years ago i saw one fairly often in Santa Cruz, CA. I bet it's still there puttering around
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 78d
To see a sewer explosion up close is super rare, consider yourself lucky! 😁
BTW the harlekin costume is ugly AF IMO.
homes@piefed.world · 27 pts · 78d
I had a jacket like that c. 1991. It was fly
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 78d
I'm guessing you're a white guy
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 21 pts · 78d
uh-huh uh-huh
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 78d
give it to me baby!
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 78d
A-ha a-ha!
Snowcano@startrek.website · 2 pts · 78d
I’ve been trying to remember what those were called, would love to try and get my hands on one.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 78d
I think they were called Technicolor Dreamcoats
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 78d
Or possibly a play parachute
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
I know a second hand shop that sells them.
nahostdeutschland@feddit.org · 25 pts · 78d
It kind of was peak car:
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
You ruined this car for me right now!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 76d
But worse than a modern diesel wagon or even midsize (huge by European standards) crossover SUV like an X5. I guess about the same as a modern petrol wagon like a Passat Variant then? Which can transport way more stuff, fit adults in the back seat and should even be able to tow a medium sized trailer (not a huge motorhome obviously).
We've come a LONG way in efficiency for internal combustion engines. Pickup trucks suck, but outside of the US they're not very common daily drivers anyway... and we have smaller ones. 2.0 diesel Ford Ranger is about on par with the fuel economy you claim for the Polo (is it really THAT high?). Same for some variants of the Toyota HiLux.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 76d
Once you put those 5 people in it, it is slow as fuck. I had a renault alliance when I was 18 and 4 people in that meant that I couldn't get enough speed to get out of 3rd. And going over the mountain pass in my home town was 2nd gear and 30mph at Best, on a 55mph road. Incredibly dangerous.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · -6 pts · 78d
6L/100km is terrible.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 78d
According to this source (German), the average gas consumption of privately-owned cars in Germany in 2023 was 7.8 liter per 100 km. So this 30 year old car, which is not all that fuel-efficient by modern standards, is still more efficient than what people drive today.
nahostdeutschland@feddit.org · 10 pts · 78d
That is in a car from the 1990s. A modern car in that form could use way less.
ptu@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 78d
If you include only petrol cars, it’s quite on par with like a 2020’s VW Golf
lasta@piefed.world · 24 pts · 78d
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 :)
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 78d
The rear quarter panel is the original chassis paint and registration color. This one's red.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
But would you buy one?
lasta@piefed.world · 4 pts · 78d
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.
homes@piefed.world · 1 pts · 77d
after living in nyc, I'll never own a car again.
but if I were ever to consider owning a car... if I could get one that was an EV? I might consider it. I like that it's bonkers-looking and different.
but that specific VW model? nah. it wasn't that great of a car.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 78d
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.
nomecks@lemmy.wtf · 8 pts · 78d
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?
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 77d
Similar to Mercedes oil traveling up the harness and I think GM also.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 78d
The driver's mobile phone:
https://gsmcollection.ro/product/motorola-startac-70-rainbow-edition-the-ultra-rare-multicolor-icon-of-the-gsm-era/
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....
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 78d
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
If she was a Latin teacher, that’s par for the course.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 78d
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.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 78d
Hello, I'd like to drive around in an unsolved Rubik's Cube please.
argl@feddit.org · 12 pts · 77d
Almost perfect - only thing missing is a set of Ronal Teddy rims, like on this Golf Harlekin.
These were unironically great cars, would absolutely still drive today.
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 2 pts · 77d
Nice, I learned to drive in that car (non harlekin version though)
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 78d
This car is dressed like it's got a sitcom on UPN.
edg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 78d
This should have been the livery for runabouts on Voyager.
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 78d
Do you mean DS9? I'm pretty sure Voyager had regular shuttles and the Delta Flyer.
edg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
Don't think DS9 aired on UPN in my area, small shuttle craft naming conventions aside.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 pts · 78d
I swear this was VW's equivalent to trying to cook with all the items in the fridge that are about to expire.
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 78d
This is the Volkswagen Harlequin, and are very rare. Only 264 were made. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/what-is-volkswagen-harlequin-car/
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 11 pts · 78d
I just checked: your numbers are for the north american region for the golf Mk3 version, this picture is of the VW Polo III version, where apparently 3806 were made.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 78d
earlstilt@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 78d
The Benetton Polo, there was a golf too and an F1 team
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 6 pts · 78d
Found it :)
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 78d
Wow, I was JUST looking for this color scheme yesterday, to recreate it in My Summer Car.
Sualtam@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 78d
Ok bear with me:
A Fiat Multipla with this paint.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 13 pts · 78d
Not just any Multipla.
The 1300 horsepower 1000tipla:
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 78d
Is that the pope car?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 78d
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.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 5 pts · 78d
Buntglascontainer
Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 78d
It's like a kindergartener was asked to pick out paints.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 78d
I want one.
clifmo@programming.dev · 1 pts · 78d
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
melfie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 76d
The color scheme makes me think of Google, unfortunately.
Archer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
If only it were a Beetle, then it would be Harry Dresden’s car
Reygle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 77d
Genuine question: I thought it was spelled "harlequin" and I checked- Miriam Webster seems to think so too. Is this another "idiot american" thing I was unaware of?
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 11 pts · 77d
Harlekin is the German word. You know, taking into account that VW is a German company.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Well no shit. Learned something today, Danke!