#golf harlequin

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Volkswagen Golf Harlequin (MKIII) at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2024) - Meet 6 in Waukesha, WI.

[germancarssince1946]

1996 VW Golf Harlequin

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[idroolinmysleep]

Or you can buy a Volkswagen, which was actually sold (though poorly in the US).

Just make sure you're wearing a Brooks Brothers Fun Shirt while driving it.

Nissan Harlecube, 2009. A special edition of the third edition Cube

[hurlyburlytopsyturvy]

new june outfit!

[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

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Family photo <3

[karmicbias]

This looks like it should have been the interior for the VW Golf Harlequin.

MCC Smart Eco-Speedster Concept, 1993

[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…

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

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For the curious who haven't yet seen it, I wrote about the Golf Harlequin and its inspiration the Polo Harlekin!

And also, I've heard many joke about what a Harlequin with modern VW colors would look like, and well, you’re not gonna believe what Volkswagen actually did with a 2000s Golf.

No, seriously. This is real. (I mean, it was a one-off made for a commercial and the joke is pretty funny, but it is real).

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

Gradually getting more bland and cookie cutter

[iamespecter]

Oh yeah, I have another AU and just like the Harlequin AU, it's a huge one

For the uninitiated, Origins AU is a slice of life + action adventure comedy centered around the Glamrock cast, as they try to get by starting their own band and maybe, kicking ass. No, Security Breach & Ruin isn't canon to this AU, its it's own world (though SB characters can show up as a minor cast).

I'm pretty sure the reason this au started was because I saw the baby Monty decal from Gator golf and thought, "Why is Monty the only one with this? The others should also have their origins too" (hence the name)

These are all SUPER old art btw, from all the way back to 2022

One thing led to another, and with the joint effort with my bf @nobody-nexus, Origins AU began with baby decal concepts, to fleshed out world(s), backstories and lore.

Lots, and LOTS of em. But for the sake of not boring anyone with details, I'll summarize.

Freddy is an Alien space bear Supersoldier called an "Ursin'ul" (play on words on "ursine" and "arsenal") crash landing on earth, refusing to participate in propaganda and colonizing other planets once he found out the truth about his kind

Chica is a rebellious yet naive meravian Princess who learns forbidden knowledge to be able to walk on land and explore the world beyond the sea, as long as she keeps hydrating

Roxy is the bad girl small-time rockstar that's closed off to most people due to her upbringing, and transforms into a werewolf when full moon hits

Monty is a 9-foot tall irradiated alligator being pursued by the government after he broke out, whom wants to study him in order to create potential bio-weaponized supersoldiers

And Bonnie is... Roxy's roommate getting caught in the crossfire. A normal guy with a lot of uncles (almost ALL Bonnies from the entire franchise are related to him), and owns a bowling alley. That's it lmao, he doesn't have a secret or a superpower like everyone, he's just the average menkisser

They're always pursued by The Rockstars in this AU, all with personal motives behind their actions: Francois being forced to find and retrieve Freddy by Levi's (Lefty) orders, Clarabelle wants revenge for her eye from Roxy, Felix is down horrendous for Chica and wants to marry her against her will, and Brian is tasked with retrieving Monty.

Other variants in the franchise have their own thing too lmao, HW dlc being weird country guys, Toys being a Mafia group/Toymakers with an ongoing feud with the Funtimes, Withereds/Classics being veterans in the ent. industry, and Fury's Rage enemies aren't enemies, but Monty's friends from his time in confinement. There's Nightmares too, but they aren't a thing until the end.

I've made lots of shitposts, artworks and designs alongside Nexus for this au, and one day, I wanna come back to it and work on tweaking stuff as well as story beats. For now, I got a lot of things I have to work on first and this serves as an archive for the au's ideas.

[frenchcurious]

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

[speedlimit15]

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

[cosmonautroger]

1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin

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@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