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    Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials

    Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years

    Rumored! 2010 Iteration of Four-Door Chrysler 300 To Get Drop-Top Treatment?

    2007 Chrysler Sebring's Dual Top Pleasure; For People Who Like It Hard AND Soft

    Frankfurt Premiere: Karmann/ZF Karma SUV Cabrio
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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 junkman junkman
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    I've always thought I should buy a Crossfire only because they were built by Karmann. I have a one-off car they built in the mid-'60's and the workmanship is incredible. Let's hope they can weather this storm.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    a Mercedes-Benz CLK the final vehicle to roll off the bankrupt companies [sic] assembly lines.


    Adding insult to injury.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    This is sad.

    And why can't somebody start making those VW KGs again?
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    Novaload was starred Novaload was unstarred
    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    So....any Ghia's being sold supercheap?


    supercheap ghia site:craigslist.org -Hookers -Dead

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    Image of sos10 sos10
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    Not completely correct... They stop producing cars but continue to make convertible roofs for several brands.
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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    ЯЭVEЯЭИD ZOMBIЭ POLAЯ SЭZ...


    May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Karmann,

    for he often refreshed it,

    and was not ashamed of their E3 Limousine,

    but when he was in Osnabrück,

    he sought them diligently, and found them,

    the Lord grant to Karmann to find the Lord's mercy on that day;

    and in how many things they served at...


    Current car production at Karmann


    * Audi A4 Convertible

    * Mercedes CLK Convertible


    Current production of car modules


    * Roof modules

    o Audi A4 convertible, 2001

    o Bentley Continental GTC convertible, 2006

    o BMW 1 Series convertible

    o Mercedes CLK convertible

    o Nissan Micra C+C retractable hardtop, 2005

    o Renault Mégane CC retractable hardtop, 2002

    o VW New Beetle convertible

    o Pontiac G6 retractable hardtop, 2007

    o Chrysler Sebring (convertible) retractable hardtop & convertible softtop, 2007

    o Ford Mustang (convertible), 2007


    * Chassis Modules

    o Mercedes-Benz SLK

    o Spyker C8 Spyder


    ...you know very well.


    Amen.

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    POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION was starred POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION was unstarred
    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    06/24/09

    @POLAЯ ИOWZ WITH MOAЯ ZOMBIEZ: You coming back on the day Max Mosley retires can't be a coincidence, right?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/24/09

    @POLAЯ ИOWZ WITH MOAЯ ZOMBIEZ: That seems to be quite a bit of business that they have; why would they have gone bankrupt?


    The products that they produce require reasonably similar tooling, are diversified across the automotive market, and some of the cars that they make parts for are selling surprisingly well in the context of this depressed market.


    I wonder what drove them into the ground.

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    Image of .357 .357
    06/24/09

    @franzouse: Oh. My. God.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/24/09

    @franzouse: Well, of course now that you know, we'll have to kill you. Sorry.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/24/09

    @POLAЯ ИOWZ WITH MOAЯ ZOMBIEZ: And lo, now they must render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, even unto the lamentations in the balance sheet. These quarters are stern and jealous quarters and separate the wheat from the chaff in the marketplace.

    /wtf, just trying to placate you in case you really are Max. Or even better, forced him to retire.
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    Image of TurboBrick [LIGIER] TurboBrick [LIGIER]
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    Well if they're out, then who is making the Saab convertibles? I seem to recall that they snubbed Valmet Automotive assembly plant after all those years in favor of Karmann.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    06/24/09

    @TurboBrick: If losing the 9-3 convertible is the loss we have to endure for Karmann closing up shop, I think I'll survive.


    A friend of mine just decided to trade in his dying Saab on a newer 9-3 convertible. Any young guy has no business in that car. If he hadn't lost his mind in dealing with every other aspect of his life, maybe I could talk some sense into him.

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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    06/24/09

    @TurboBrick: They're moving the 'Vert (and the MY10 9-5) tooling to Trollhatten.


    And still have room for at least one more line...

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    06/24/09

    In reply to Coachbuilder Karmann Closes Doors After 108 Years
    I'm sure VW is excited to see this below their "Meet the Volkswagens" ad.


    They haven't talked much about Karmann since they had to take him off the respirator.

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