#golf harlequin

[untouchvbles]

Volkswagen Golf R (MKVI) at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2024) - Meet 1 in Waukesha, WI.

[germancarssince1946]

1996 VW Golf Harlequin

My tumblr-blogs: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/germancarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/frenchcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/englishcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/italiancarssince1946

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

twas a '98 polo green de ville. its so pretty bro

See? Shows what I know!

I went and checked, by the way, because that seemed exactly like the right car in the right period of time, and indeed, all De Villes made from 1996 were equipped with the Northstar V8.

I made roughly this face.

To make a long story short, someone at Cadillac saw the legendarily good LS V8 they freely had available as part of General Motors and thought "You know what we should do? Spend an absolute fortune to develop a V8 of our own that fulfills exactly the same purpose". And apparently the people sensible enough to run the place were all on vacation, because lo and behold, we got the Northstar V8, a Cadillac-only V8 that was supposed to tell the world that Cadillac is still bangin', babey! We're not just throwing GM parts together here, we're putting in effort and making something serious, something unique, something Cadillac! Something whose together-keeping threads just shear off after a while. Woo, Cadillac. You were so brave for this one.

But since I don't wanna be all negative, let me tell you about what "98 polo green" made me think about!

In 1996, the Volkswagen Polo was coming out with new colors! And they were like "Let's show the motor show audiences our new colors in a fun, captivating way!" and so they made a Polo out of pieces of all the new colors!

And then they got a FLOOD of dealers shouting WE WANT THIS NOW and they were like "Oh all these new colors are coming in-" and they were like NO we want THIS and they were like "Ah Sheiße" (fuck) and so they begrudgingly took a set of four cars of four different colors off the production line, swapped their body panels around to create the color combinations you see below, and kept repeating the process until they got one entire thousand of Polo "Harlekin"s.

Which vaporized off the lot before they could say "That ought to be enough" in German (and in German it's just 5 syllables so that's saying something), so they upped the production to around 3800 total, which were sold over two years without letting the customers pick the color combination they got.

They also did this to the Golf for the US market (now spelling it 'Harlequin'), but they only made 264 and some of them had to be un-harlequin'd by reshuffling the different colored parts back into four uniformly colored cars (and sometimes just straight up repainted) to be moved off the lot. And they say it's Germans who lack sense of humor.

But I know what you are wondering - or at least, what you will react to with "fuck that's actually a very good question" upon reading: what the fuck do these cars' documents say under "color"? The answer is actually pretty logical (these are German cars after all): the car was one single color when it rolled off the production line, and while they bolted parts of different colors onto it, that color remains in the non-replaceable elements like roof, sills, rear pillar, and all the inside parts like door seams, engine bay, underside and what have you - so that is the color the car legally is.

So yeah man there's your fun facts about the Cadillac De Ville.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[petegans]

Radwood SoCal 2023

[p2ii]

Family photo <3

[savageonwheels]

Car Spot: 96 VW Golf Harlequin

A VW that has a cult-like following. The VW Golf Harlequin is this week's spot.

It was big in Europe. Over here not so much. The family was down in Peoria, IL getting our daughter settled into her new job in Operations at Peoria International. We were driving back from something when I saw this rare VW on I-74. Since I was driving, wifey and kid unit did all the pictures. They didn’t get why I was all excited to see this gem living in Central Illinois. This example was off…

[wildbeautifuldamned]

www.theriaultslive.com

[frenchcurious]

Volkswagen Golf Harlequin 1996 - 264 exemplaires produits, tous pour le marché nord-américain. - source Bring a Trailer.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Porsche 918 Spyder Harlekin, 2023, by Next Level Cars. Regular followers may remember me posting about Volkswagen's Polo and Golf Harlekin special edition models. In homage to these cars Dutch customisers Next Level Cars have created a harlequin wrap for a Porsche 918. It was presented at the Sportwagentreffen Velden 2023. The event is held at Velden at Worthersee, on the shores of the lake where the Wortherseetreffen Golf GTI festival used to take place. You car watch a video here

[speedlimit15]

my lust for the harlequin golf has been slowly replaced over the last 12 years by an ache for an 80s toyota tercel

[untouchvbles]

Volkswagen Golf Harlequin (MKIII) at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2024) - Meet 1 in Waukesha, WI.

[cosmonautroger]

1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin

[argo-nautilus-art]

@schemedplans and I did an OC trade! Here's the one I made for him :3

More things about her under the cut:

Continuity non-specific

We decided that he and Knockout are rivals. Not over anything that matters, they just hate each other's fashion taste

Them and Sparky get put on scouting duty in remote locations often. Not because they're particularly good at it, they're just less...noticeable out there

Some parts of her body are faulty. Not because she doesn't care to get them fixed, it's just that having a petty feud with the team medic makes it harder

Also that kinda car having issues just feels fitting

Wanted a Golf Harlequin alt mode, but the higher-ups said "no." Reluctantly chose a regular VW Golf, but later painted on the Harlequin colors out of spite

Does paint jobs in her free time, and is actually very good at it. Knockout comes in for paint touchups. This is just as awkward as you'd think. Roadcrasher is constantly asking him if he wants a more colorful paint job and every time he says "NO"

KO has to bring someone else along with him so that she doesn't pull any paintjob-related stunts. She keeps trying to bribe them but it's super obvious. This happens every month

Brings Sparky to their (rarely occurring) checkups. Sparky jumps up on KO every time. He hates it

Sparky has no idea the rivalry is a thing lmao

[dreamboyf]

so grateful that I live in the vicinity of one of the only remaining harlequin Volkswagen golfs and that i get to see it driving around on my way to work

[themightythornicus]

*stares longingly at 1996 vw harlequin golf*

[nukleator]

"we have harlequin golf at home"