#rabbit gti

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1983 VW Rabbit GTI ad

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

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Just in time for Easter 🐰

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Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk1

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VW Golf Mk1

@great_tomelo

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Rabbit GTI

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1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI

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Volkswagen Golf

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Volkswagen Golf

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2023 Volkswagen Golf GTI S

VW's Golf GTI doesn't change much visually, but it's still a strong performer, a fun little hatchback!

VW’s GTI packs plenty of performance, even with an automatic … Volkswagen fans know all about the Golf GTI, the sporty hatchback has been a mainstay performance friendly version of its compact runabout for 40 years. Golfs (and Rabbits) have been VW’s go-to entry-level car basically since the original Beetle was discontinued in the US in 1979. While this current version looks crisply styled, to…

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Had this silly idea with Rakoongrey's circus strongwoman gal, Stella. Heard she was up for some crazy act that could make use of her strength. Enjoy!

[shoffty]

My 09 MK5 Rabbit

Decided to make a quick overview post of my 2009 MK5 Rabbit. Bought this car back in March of 2022 with around 96,000 miles on it at the time. It needed a little TLC but for the most part it was one owner with very low mileage. Pretty sure the car was only driven in the warmer months considering it had 0 rust. Bought it with the intention of being a daily. Has a 2.5 5 cylinder which is one of VW's most reliable engines ever, mated to a 5 speed manual. Perfect spec IMO. Now, onto the list of things I've done since owning it

Started with general maintenance. Oil change, spark plug change, needed new rear tires, just an overall overhaul on simple things.

After that I drove it and got used to it, just figuring out what else needed done.

Restored the headlights with Griot's Ceramic Headlight Restoration Kit (which I highly recommend).

Replaced the dogbone mount insert for a video for work.

Bought a set of Radi8 R8T12's speced at 18x8.5 +40 with some 215/40r18 Hankook's. Ran these with stock suspension for a month or two.

Finally got coilovers and dropped the car as low as I could reasonably go.

Threw on my MOMO Prototipo steering wheel that I had from my previous car.

Replaced engine and transmission mount.

Drove the car a bit, took a trip to Gatlinburg, just tried to enjoy the setup.

Front suspension needed an overhaul after the coilovers, so I got new aluminum LCA's with polyurethane bushings as well as new ball joints and tie rod ends.

Found a set of Audi A3 wheels that I decided to use as winter wheels

Ended up finding a APR Carbonio intake for a MK6 Golf that ended up fitting my car. Man I love NLA parts

Currently that's where the car sits. Going to work on redoing the interior this winter as well as getting a different set of summer wheels. I'm not stancy enough to really enjoy these Radi8's. Going to post more updates of this car when I can. If you want to see anything particular just let me know.

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Volkswagen Rabbit (MKI) at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2023) - Meet 3 in Waukesha, WI.  

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I have a filthy confession to make. I still love Volkswagens. No, not the current ones, with their humming-coughdrop efficiency and Teutonic stereos made entirely of hovering touchscreens that you can't get rid of even when you go to sleep at night. No, I mean the real shit: water-cooled cars from the 80s and 90s.

Yeah, I hear you air-cooled folks in the background screaming at me about how spending ten thousand dollars for approximately 36 horsepower is a way more fun way to exist. To you, I have no polite reply. You have gone so far down the rabbit hole (get it?) that there is simply nothing that can be done to rehabilitate you into regular society. For the rest of us, I think we can all acknowledge that the Mk3 GTI is underrated.

Sure, when they were new, and even when they were a little bit old, nobody liked the Mk3. You've got the Mk2, which is fun and zingy, and the Mk4, which is luxurious and fast. The Mk3 is... neither of those things. So everyone threw them in the bin as soon as they could, and went to go buy Audi Allroads instead. Joke's on you, suckers. You accidentally made those shitboxes into rare collectibles and I hope the exploding-heater-core coolant burns to your face and genitals heal quickly.

Thing is, there's just something about these terrible cars. Maybe it's because they're boxy. Possibly it's because I have a compulsive hoarding behaviour that makes me want to rescue unloved vehicles from oblivion. Most likely, though, it's because I still harbour a delusional fantasy that it's possible to buy a car – any car – for under one thousand fucking dollars, and surely these hated shitbaskets must be somewhere near the bottom of Kelley Blue Book value.

For me, the disease is so bad that I'll sometimes drive past farmer's fields in the most racist part of the outskirts of my city. I hope that they have an old Mk3 GTI just sitting there, up on blocks. That there's some kind of combination of honeyed words, fast-cash-flashes, and freshly-deceased owners that will let me escape with a five hundred dollar one. And then, I will finally be able to live my fantasy of owning and operating a car I didn't want twenty years ago.

I'm sure you feel the same way about the Mk3 GTI, too. If you don't, maybe you should go take a look at one. Then tell me which farmer's field it's in and if his widow is willing to accept cash, or if she would strongly prefer Venmo.

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Mk1

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Volkswagen Rabbit GTI 1984. - source Bring a Trailer.