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    Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials

    1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!

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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I heart Driving German Cars.
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    Image of jaymcminn jaymcminn
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The "Dah, dah, dah" ad didn't make the cut? Really? THe "Kleine GTI" ad and the '71 Karmann Ghia ad were brilliant, however.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @jaymcminn: Yeah, that one's a classic.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I appreciate that VW's ad money is the lion's share of the site's revenue stream, but aren't any of you in management worried about the credibility of a car site that doesn't acknowledge, at least once in a while, that the vast majority of VW's are utter pieces of overpriced crap driven by Apple Store shoppers who care more about a secret paint color you can only get on the internet than they do about driving dynamics or reliability?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/06/09

    @snapoversteer: As long as I can keep lighting my cigars with Wolfsburg-supplied Benjamins, you won't hear a single bad word about any VW product from me! Same goes for Ssangyong!
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    07/06/09

    @Murilee Martin: Nice. I didn't mean for my V-dub rant to accidentally splash bile on your entertaining ad retrospective. Your weekend postings are excellent.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/07/09

    @snapoversteer: No problem, just wanted to make it clear that we don't ever get any editorial pressure to say good or bad things about companies that do or don't advertise on our site.


    That said, if VW wants to send me a suitcase packed with cash, I'm all for it!

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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The British series "If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen" had little stories about lifes vicissitudes, in which the punchline was the protagonist turning the key in their Golf.


    I'll always remember the morning after the casino guy, and the unfaithful husband woman.


    Oh, and the one where the couple are in the car for hundreds of miles, and everything is perfect except for this continula tiny squeak. Despite endless searching, they can't find the source. Eventually they pull into a tiny service station in the desert, and the gnarly old proprietor leans into the car, looks around, and puts a drop of oil on the womans pendant earrings.

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    Image of the_gank the_gank
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    How about the GTI vs Prius "how does your Prius sound commercial?


    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :D

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @the_gank: It's actually hawking the Jetta TDI, but yeah, it's pretty good.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    You missed the "1949 Auto Show" ad from 1969:


    Absolute classic.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @tonyola: Genius ad. I wonder if, years from now, Hyundai or Kia might make a similar one costarring Plymouth, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu and whoever else croaks before the end of the Carpocalypse.
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    Image of PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287 PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I still can't find a digital copy of the ad, but I remember it from my youth (early 90s I guess) It was a VW herder that had a farm with all of these VWs on it driving around. The ad ends with the farmer stating "You can tell by the gleam in the daytime running lights, these are happy cars!"


    It's a line that has stuck with me ever since.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/05/09

    @PotbellyJoe: Somewhere a marketing man just got his wings.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    How appropriate that it's located in Surprise, AZ, since I'd be surprised if anyone was willing to pay anything close to $6.5k for that.


    Pass the pipe.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    "turns heads everywhere"
    And stomachs, too.
    No thanks on the bus, dude. But I will have $6,500 worth of whatever it is you are drinking/smoking/snorting.
     Reply
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    Image of Armand Armand
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    You know, instead of raising this bus with different springs or lifting blocks, like you'd do on a normal 4x4 with solid axles, this thing has probably just gotten the torsion bars cranked up by a few splines. That means it's 3 inches higher, but with the same spring rate it always had... don't try to go around corners too fast.
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    Image of junkman junkman
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    I never thought I could vote crack pipe two days in a row, especially with French and German rear-engine vehicles, but I did. I don't know whether to congratulate Graverobber or be pissed at him.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    So epic a crack pipe,


    You'd have to go to Amsterdam.

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    04/16/09

    @Mobius_1: Us Jalops only go to Hamsterdamn for our drugs.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    04/16/09

    @Slant Saleanin, rogue potato cannon: Speak for yourself, I have wooden shoe needs that just can't be met by North America.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    That's be a nice price, if it was unmolested and in great condition. This isn't that.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    A Hippie's icon the VW bus may be,

    Most of them should disappear into the sea.

    A body that resembles a concentration camp,

    And needs stoppers to keep it on the ramp.

    The body is oozing so full of rust,

    And the engine lacks any form of thrust.

    Some say debadging a ride is just plain cool,

    But say that about this you are just a fool.

    No interior, no bumper, and a jacked-up ride,

    This will forever decimate your pride.


    Sixty-five hundred is a lot of dough,

    You can do better than to buy yourself woe.

    Don't be fooled by the Bus' hype,

    This is just pure Crack Pipe.

     Reply
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    Image of .357 .357
    04/16/09

    @Mobius_1: Plus, $6,500 buys you a lot of herbs.
     Reply
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    04/16/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: so kick this dog to the curb.
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    Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable was starred Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable was unstarred
    Image of .357 .357
    04/16/09

    In reply to 1958 Volkswagen Bus Highboy for $6,500!
    Crack to the Pipe
     Reply
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