We were expecting some wacky stuff here at the Geneva Motor Show, but a VW pickup on hydros? What the what? Sure why not, the crazy part was the 8 switch Vee Dub was sitting next to a dropped Ferrari F40, which we thought was illegal to begin with, but what do we know. What does that say about us that both Spinelli and I walked right past the F40 like it was invisible? In any case, too bad this example wasn't seen at SEMA or some state fairground where we would have been no doubt treated to a couple of tasteful poses.
Volkswagen Rabbitamino On Hydros?
11:00 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
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Is this a follow-up to yesterday's 'How much is too much' article?
Pimp Caddy.
This vehicle makes no sense at all, and that's exactly why I love it so much.
The dollar sign motif just adds the final, crowning touch to the rolling non-sequitir.
Hell yeah, I dig it.
Nothin' says 'classy' like dolla' signs.
I knew it was going to be bad. I just didn't know it was going to be THIS bad.
Looks like maybe Switzerland needs to build a border fence.
Just because something is different doesn't mean its good. Though I'll admit I might also walk by an F40 to see this, it'd be more motivated by the pointing and laughing rather than genuine admiration.
Lack of Taste 2008: International Style
this proves once and for all that cars can not only possess dignity, but that their dignity can very brutally be taken away.
The steering wheel should have had these instead: €, but otherwise this is pretty sweet. Making hydraulics work with a front-wheel drive strut suspension must have required some reasonably serious engineering, and this must be one of the few manual transmission low riders.
So let's see some pictures of the dropped F40.
@harumph: I bet it cries itself to sleep when it's in the garage all alone.
@elwood: It was a pimped/tuned F40, which is much more stupid than this.
MUST HAVE. I could see the Beastie Boys rolling in this. well, maybe just two of them.
Coulda called it Bubonic Teutonic.
This is probably in violation of the Geneva conventions.
Those wheels are so 2002-2004.
@Suba-dude: Totally. This needs a stereo that only plays Paul's Boutique.
Sadly another Geneva car we'll never see it in the US... dolla dolla bill y'all!
Though I know this car was probably birthed under the line "Alright, what the hell do we pimp now?", I can only dream that a couple of folks (or should I say Volks?) were standing beside this shoddy little Fow-Veh, either having picked from their professor who owned it for decades, or they themselves, after having pootled around for years in this little thing asked themsemselves, What the hell should we do to zis VW? And so it began.
Techincally it shouldn't be called a rabitamino because it came from the factory that was. True -amino should be a do it yourself job. for the record I know I am a nerd
Alas, dolla' signs don't mean what they used to in Europe....
Was ist das, zuhalterei meine Wagen betreiben?
* Pimp my car (ride doesn't work auf Deutsch).
Hopefully James Glickenhaus can arrange a hit on whoever thought that it might be a good idea to drop an F40.
This wins "Project Car Hell" as it sits
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