Thirty years later Am I the only one who finds Volkswagen’s advertising touting stop–start as a point of difference a little strange? VW, after all, has had Formel E since the early 1980s, and some of those models had stop–start.
Everybody at Volkswagen hated that car. It had the wrong shape. At the time, a true Volkswagen was round. This thing was boxy with harsh corners. It had the wrong engine. A true Volkswagen was air-cooled, this one was cooled with—ughh—water. The engine was in the wrong spot. A true Volkswagen ha[d] the engine in the rear, this one had it up front. It was designed by the wrong people. A true Volkswagen was designed by Volkswagen engineers. This one was engineered by people from Audi, that strange little Bavarian company Volkswagen had acquired from Mercedes a few years before.
Meanwhile, in China You’d never have seen this in the days of Mao. Spot the lone Volkswagen Passat Lingyu in a sea of Audi A6s.
tough or beautiful - Polo VS Nissan. You decide.
Spot the differences Of course, all of us car nuts are going, ‘But the makes and models of the four American cars are different.’
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Bug kill Someone in Skyfall doesn’t like Volkswagen New Beetles. (From the high-def trailer here.)
Fusca and mates Not every day you see these lovely retro shots of Brazil.
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The VW Microbus This was about as close to honest advertising as it got, from memory. (I’ve just been watching Crazy People: ‘Buy Volvos. They’re boxy, but they’re good.’)
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