#volkswagen golf harlequin

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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!

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Volkswagen Golf Harlequin (MK3)

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Radwood SoCal 2023

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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

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1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin

[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

[juanmecanico]

¡No Creerás La Increíble Historia del Volkswagen Golf Harlequin 1996 que Encontramos Hoy! ¡Click Aquí Ahora! Mis amigos, tendremos que hablar del VW Golf Harlequin de 1996, muy particular que va a subasta en Bring a Trailer. Sí, es cierto, estamos hablando del Golf con una combinación de colores que parecería una broma para algunos, un mosaico para muchos, pero un emblema para los más atrevidos. Figuradamente, es como si el fabricante hubiera dejado que su niño pequeño eligiera los colores. Sin embargo, eso es precisamente lo que lo hace ser tan único. #QuirkyCars Es una edición limitada. Según los informes, VW solo construyó a mano 264 de estos modelos para el mercado norteamericano, y este es uno de ellos. Casi podríamos llamarlo Goldilocks porque es el número 99 de los 264 con un motor de 2.0 litros y una transmisión manual. El coche parece ser un ejemplo bien cuidado, con poco más de 76,000 millas en el odómetro y un interior que luce fresco como el primer día. Aquí es donde el Harlequin de VW se gana realmente su apodo, porque literalmente es como si estuviera hecho de piezas de otros Golfs de colores distintos. Las combinaciones de colores no siguen ninguna lógica aparente, y eso es lo que lo hace tan atractivo para los entusiastas. #AutomotiveArt Un dato divertido es que VW originalmente creó el concepto para exhibirlo en las ferias del automóvil europeas en 1995. La respuesta fue tan positiva que decidieron hacer una serie limitada. En ese momento, claramente no tenían idea de que serían un ícono para los amantes de los coches extravagantes. Yo sé lo que ustedes piensan. Un Golf con colores de arcoiris debe ser absolutamente ridículo, ¿verdad? Bueno, aquí es donde quiero detenerme un minuto. Para algunas personas ¡eso es lo que lo hace tan interesante! No estamos hablando de un superdeportivo de alto rendimiento o una joya clásica antigua y respetuosa. No, señores, estamos hablando de un Volkswagen Golf de los 90 que parece una pieza de arte contemporáneo. ¡Claro! Podríamos pasar horas debatiendo sobre el gusto e interpretaciones artísticas en cuanto a coches. Por cierto, ¿Vale la pena mencionar que hay personas que tienen la audacia de decir que los coches alemanes son aburridos? Si me preguntan, ese comentario suena más a una declaración provocadora que a un argumento bien fundamentado. No hay nada aburrido en la calidad alemana y mucho menos cuando hablamos de vehículos míticos, como este VW Golf Harlequin. Es evidente que esta peculiaridad no es del agrado de todos, y para eso los coches convencionales son más que suficientes. Pero para aquellos con un sentido del gusto fuera de lo ordinario, un VW Golf Harlequin ¡es una delicia! Un ejemplo perfecto de cómo un coche tan común puede ser transformado en una obra de arte móvil. ¿Y a quién no le gusta tener algo único? No cabe duda que este Golf despierta emociones y debate. Y, después de todo, eso es lo que debería hacer un buen coche, ¿verdad? Entonces, ¿por qué seguir con la idea de que los coches solo deben seguir una gama de colores convencionales, cuando este "payaso" podría ser una ventanilla abierta a la creatividad? #CustomCars

[havuseenmydebugbaby]

1996 Volkswagen Golf MkIII Harlequin - The Sims 4 Catalog

[callibones]

i dont drive but if i could have any car i would undeniably drive a volkswagen golf harlequin. i feel such a longing when i see that design. i want to be driving it so much

[strelnikov]

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

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VW Golf MK3 Harlequin

Hoonigan Toy Drive 2021

It's like modern art on wheels

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[nocturnal]

🍃♊ Cars for Gemini ♊🍃

1. 1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin (photo credit)

2. @nocturnal's 1986 Chevrolet El Camino

3. 1971 Corvette Stingray (photo credit)

4. 1975 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (photo credit)

[ more cars for the signs ]

A collaborative effort by @nocturnal + @drgorebag

[emon81]

#ForzaHorizon4 #XBoxShare #Volkswagen #Golf #Harlequin I made this. It was a 2 door, and since real life Harlequin cars are 4 door, I made rear doors. I used an official color chart to make sure it was accurate. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuzpaGVnGDu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k62ecc7aaj21