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?
@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!
@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.
@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!
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.
@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.
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!"
Sexy. I like it. Looks to compete with BMW pretty well. GM will no doubt find hundreds of reasons why they can't/shouldn't build something to compete with it.
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That said, if VW wants to send me a suitcase packed with cash, I'm all for it!
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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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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :D
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Absolute classic.
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It's a line that has stuck with me ever since.
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Fashionable interior appointments
Open-top Motoring
Refined Comfort
Generous storage volume
Audi's renown Quattro AWD system
Youthful styling
Select Vehicle Dynamics System
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...oh, yeah, fuck it then.