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newVideoPlayer("/84_VW_Rabbit_476.flv", 506, 423,""); While many mid-80s VW buyers were satisfied with a plain ol' Kleine GTI , others were willing to take extreme measures to get their hands on the Wolfsburg Edition Rabbit. Yes, climbing up on a moving car transporter was totally worth it , considering you'd get such features as a cassette deck and cool emblems.
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newVideoPlayer("/87_VW_GTI_476.flv", 506, 423,""); VW's "Kleine GTI" series of ads, starting in 1984 , was still going strong three years later. Those crazy Wolfsburgers went and doubled the number of valves for that year, giving America's Members Only -clad sorority girls 123 rampaging German horses under the hood.
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newVideoPlayer("/84_VW_GTI_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Yes, it's a German version of the 1964 Ronnie And The Daytonas song "Little GTO," and while the '84 GTI had a throttle body instead of three deuces and an extra gear on the transmission, it was just like the GTO! This ad came out around the time that the Reagan Administration said it was cool to show total hoonage in car ads again (after a moratorium on car-ad jumps and burnouts that lasted through most of the Malaise Era). These things sold like crazy in California, but by now most of them have disappeared.
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newVideoPlayer("79_Rabbit_Wilt_476.flv", 463, 387,""); The '79 Volkswagen Rabbit (that's a Golf to you shifty-eyed foreign types) probably didn't accelerate very rapidly with Mr. Chamberlain aboard, what with its 71-horsepower engine and all. But it has enough headroom- somehow- to accommodate a 7-footer. Wait, did we say 71 horsepower? Make that 48 horses for the Diesel Rabbit!
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