WAIT!! That's Diesel!!

This kind of thing used to happen to an ex-girlfriend who used to drive my 2001 Golf TDI quite a bit back in the early to mid 2000's.  Back then, diesel cars were pretty rare in Texas and even rarer up in rural Oklahoma where she drove.  A few times, a well-meaning person would even run over to her and shut the pump off.  

This is a new commercial from Audi for their new TDI cars and it's great!

Happy Holidays to CATC Fans!

Happy Holidays to all of you CATC fans out there!  

Have a safe and happy holiday season.

Ladies and gentlemen: the new VW Golf - BBC Top Gear

Ladies and gentlemen: the new VW Golf - BBC Top Gear

Do you know that VW has sold more than 29 million Golfs since 1974?

Volkswagen's Fabulous Ads, Pt. 4

Here are some more great ads from Volkswagen.  These are from 1962.  Enjoy!

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Volkswagen's Fabulous Ads, Pt. 3

It's time that I got the 1961 ads up here.  Click on any ad to enlarge.  Enjoy!

It takes guts to not show your product.

Volkswagen's Fabulous Ads, Pt.2

These ads are from 1960.  Click on any ad to enlarge.  Enjoy!  

Volkswagen's Fabulous Ads, Pt 1

While going through some old periodicals, I ran across one of VW's iconic ads from back in the 60's.  I thought it would make a good subject for this blog, so I started pulling down all the ads I could find, thinking I could just pick the best ones.  Little did I realize that ALL of the ads are pure advertising gold.  I'm up to 64 ads now, and I'm only to 1963.  These ads in Pt. 1 are from 1959.

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For now, I'm going to add about 10 or 15 ads at a time, a couple of times a week until you or I get tired of them.  If you like them, comment.  Same thing if you don't like them.  After all, this blog is for you, my tens of loyal readers, right?

Popular Mechanic's Take On The Volkswagen, circa 1956

In keeping with VW's birthday today, another couple of articles about the early days of VW.  

Popular Mechanic's tests were very thorough.

These two articles are from the Oct. 1956 issue of Popular Mechanics.  See what the media were saying about this funny little car that nobody expected to sell very well. 

Happy Birthday, VW!

While reading another car blog, it was brought to my attention that Volkswagen is 74 years old today.  As a satisfied VW owner myself, I just wanted to wish VW a happy birthday. 

Happy Birthday!!

It's beginnings were dubious, of course.  Adolf Hitler wanted a car for the people, and Ferdinand Porsche designed the Beetle.  Volkswagen means "people's car" in German.  Of course, Mr. Hitler's plans for world domination got in the way, the Beetle was converted to military use as the Kübelwagen. 

There are two short articles after the jump.  The first article is from Popular Science, May 1944, during WWII.  The following article is from  Oct. 1950 when the first Beetles showed up in the USA.  

VW will happily sell you an armored last-gen Jetta... in Mexico — Autoblog

VW will happily sell you an armored last-gen Jetta... in Mexico — 
From: Autoblog

From VW's Mexican website: (translated from Spanish)

Safety engineering applied to

Protect Bora offers peace of mind with attributes such as its run-flat tires with which it is possible to continue moving even if they leak its cargo of inflation.
In addition, passengers are protected with special ballistic steel body, complete with Kevlar fiber mats and glass aramid ballistic protection of polycarbonate, which prevents the entry of chips to the carrier.
Performance it should be the engine of 200 hp 2.0L FSI turbocharged. For its part, the 6-speed DSG transmission with steering wheel changes to achieve optimum use of power.

Golf With Insane Miles.

VWs sometimes get a bad rap for reliability.  It seems that everyone has trouble with them, but you won't find a more devoted bunch of owners either.  You either love 'em or hate 'em.  Not all of them are bad, however.  

 

 See the rest of the story after the jump....

 This is part of the "MY CARS" series.