VW Polo Harlekin

Source CC BY-SA 3.0 Thomas doerfer

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Specific to VW paint job called Harlequin. Looks terrible but is legit OEM paintjob and is super rare to see in the wild. If you saw one, consider yourself lucky. 10 times the luck if you saw one somewhere outside Germany.

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      12 hours ago

      Looks terrible

      Agree to disagree, I think it’s fun and whimsical. People take their cars too seriously nowadays.

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        10 hours ago

        Knowing nothing about this car I assumed it was just a Jamaican custom paint job, as it’s pretty much the Jamaican colors

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        12 hours ago

        To me, it just is a special kind of whimsical. I maybe not gonna like it as much as many nice colors some cars offer. But I’d take it over modern black/white/gray painted cars any day.

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      9 hours ago

      Used to do track days and car meets a lot (pre-cars and coffee stuff)… I’ve seen a few of these, always crazy to see them as a lot of people had no clue what they were.

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      8 hours ago

      A few years ago i saw one fairly often in Santa Cruz, CA. I bet it’s still there puttering around

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      11 hours ago

      I think the name Harlequin was a US thing? I remember them being called Color Concept in Europe, available on Golf and the Polo, from what I recall.

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        3 hours ago

        can’t find anything regarding the name. Seems like they were always called harlequin.

        The only difference is, that the US market got Polos and EU got Golfs

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      13 hours ago

      To see a sewer explosion up close is super rare, consider yourself lucky! 😁

      BTW the harlekin costume is ugly AF IMO.