#Volkswagen Polo Harlekin
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Porsche 918 Spyder Harlekin, 2023, by Next Level Cars. Regular followers may remember me posting about Volkswagen's Polo and Golf Harlekin special edition models. In homage to these cars Dutch customisers Next Level Cars have created a harlequin wrap for a Porsche 918. It was presented at the Sportwagentreffen Velden 2023. The event is held at Velden at Worthersee, on the shores of the lake where the Wortherseetreffen Golf GTI festival used to take place. You car watch a video here
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twas a '98 polo green de ville. its so pretty bro
See? Shows what I know!
I went and checked, by the way, because that seemed exactly like the right car in the right period of time, and indeed, all De Villes made from 1996 were equipped with the Northstar V8.
I made roughly this face.
To make a long story short, someone at Cadillac saw the legendarily good LS V8 they freely had available as part of General Motors and thought "You know what we should do? Spend an absolute fortune to develop a V8 of our own that fulfills exactly the same purpose". And apparently the people sensible enough to run the place were all on vacation, because lo and behold, we got the Northstar V8, a Cadillac-only V8 that was supposed to tell the world that Cadillac is still bangin', babey! We're not just throwing GM parts together here, we're putting in effort and making something serious, something unique, something Cadillac! Something whose together-keeping threads just shear off after a while. Woo, Cadillac. You were so brave for this one.
But since I don't wanna be all negative, let me tell you about what "98 polo green" made me think about!
In 1996, the Volkswagen Polo was coming out with new colors! And they were like "Let's show the motor show audiences our new colors in a fun, captivating way!" and so they made a Polo out of pieces of all the new colors!
And then they got a FLOOD of dealers shouting WE WANT THIS NOW and they were like "Oh all these new colors are coming in-" and they were like NO we want THIS and they were like "Ah Sheiße" (fuck) and so they begrudgingly took a set of four cars of four different colors off the production line, swapped their body panels around to create the color combinations you see below, and kept repeating the process until they got one entire thousand of Polo "Harlekin"s.
Which vaporized off the lot before they could say "That ought to be enough" in German (and in German it's just 5 syllables so that's saying something), so they upped the production to around 3800 total, which were sold over two years without letting the customers pick the color combination they got.
They also did this to the Golf for the US market (now spelling it 'Harlequin'), but they only made 264 and some of them had to be un-harlequin'd by reshuffling the different colored parts back into four uniformly colored cars (and sometimes just straight up repainted) to be moved off the lot. And they say it's Germans who lack sense of humor.
But I know what you are wondering - or at least, what you will react to with "fuck that's actually a very good question" upon reading: what the fuck do these cars' documents say under "color"?
The answer is actually pretty logical (these are German cars after all): the car was one single color when it rolled off the production line, and while they bolted parts of different colors onto it, that color remains in the non-replaceable elements like roof, sills, rear pillar, and all the inside parts like door seams, engine bay, underside and what have you - so that is the color the car legally is.
So yeah man there's your fun facts about the Cadillac De Ville.
Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!
#btw the northstar was cool when it worked and polo green is a GREAT color#cadillac de ville#northstar v8#volkswagen polo harlekin#volkswagen golf harlequin
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MOTOROLA STARTAC RAINBOW! this phone was released in 1997 w/ the code names harlequin / rainbow! They came up with the idea for the phone once they realized they had a bunch of colored plastic laying around and their other recent phone was nearing its end + the color combination was inspired by Volkswagen’s limited edition Polo Harlekin :-]
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You get 2 guesses to figure out what kind of car these plates are for. Answer in the comments. CarShowPlate.com . @thisiserod @erods_harlekin . · · · #mk1 #volkswagenpolols #volkswagenpolor #volkswagenpolo9n #volkswagenpolo6n #vwlovers #pologti #vw #volkswagen #volkswagenpolo #vwlove #polo #vwlife #vwbus #vwpolo #car #vwlifestyle #gti #stance #vwgolf #volkswagenpologti #vwclassic #carporn #harlekin #harlequin #poloharlekin #golfharlequin (at Akron, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvwDlTuz5R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Remember when Volkswagen harlekin polo became kind of a meme but it's a car I actually grew up with
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Volkswagen Polo Harlequin in the snow in Lübeck
#germany#deutschland#german#sh#schleswig-holstein#lübeck#snow#cars#car#multi-coloured#volkswagen#polo#harlequin#strange#harlekin
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Volkswagen Polo Matt Edition Protected by @carpro_official Cquartz Professional ceramic nano coating! #Carpro #Cquartz Professional . . . . #vwpolo #rline #pologt #pologti #polowrc #polo6n #poloharlekin #harlekin #harlequin #volkswagen #ceramiccoating #nanocoating #polishing (at ultimate_detailerz_thrissur) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV-cWk0pw4D/?utm_medium=tumblr
#carpro#cquartz#vwpolo#rline#pologt#pologti#polowrc#polo6n#poloharlekin#harlekin#harlequin#volkswagen#ceramiccoating#nanocoating#polishing
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Saw this very rare Volkswagen Polo Harlequin today. That's the colors it's meant to be. Manufactured in 1995 there's only 26 on UK roads. @volkswagen @volkswagen_uk @volkswagenpolo @vwccownersclub @dub3tep @madcarsofengland #volkswagenpoloharlekin #volkswagenharlequin #vwharlequin #vw #volkswagen #volkswagenccownersclub #harliquin #harlekin #rarecars #rarecarspotting #limitededitioncars #specialeditioncars #vwowners #volkswagenpolo #poloharlekin #poloharlequin (at Farnham) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBxk-ibhyXu/?igshid=qmbezhycicz3
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Start Planning To Import This Volkswagen Polo Harlekin Right Now - The final days of December are upon us and soon it will be time to ring in the new year. While we better start getting ready to write2020" on our checks and assignments and paperwork the arrival of January First doesnt have me looking forward but rather back to 1995. Why? The Volkswagen Polo Harlekin is finally Read more... ... From Jalopnik.com (@iamspeedrunner)... Repin by (@iamspeedrunner)... by @iamspeedrunner. Also, check out https://www.iamspeedrunner.com
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Volkswagen Polo Harlekin brochure, 1995. The special model Polo was produced as an edition of 3100 cars (the first image is both the front & back page of the brochure)
#Volkswagen#Volkswagen Polo#Volkswagen Polo Harlekin#1995#1990s#Volkswagen Polo Harlequin#Harlequin#multi coloured#special edition#limited edition
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What a difference 25 years makes juxtaposition of Volkswagen Polo Harlequin, 1996 & Volkswagen Polo Harlequin, 2021. VW’s Dutch subsidiary has created a one-off Polo Harlequin (Harlekin) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original and to demonstrate how far technology, comfort, and safety have come since. Whereas the original Polo Harlekin was a limited edition of 3806 cars the new will remain a one-off.
#Volkswagen#Volkswagen Polo#Volkswagen Polo Harlequin#Volkswagen Polo Harlekin#one-off#limited edition#2021#1996#25th Anniversary Edition#25th anniversary
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Start Planning To Import This Volkswagen Polo Harlekin Right Now - The final days of December are upon us and soon it will be time to ring in the new year. While we better start getting ready to write2020" on our checks and assignments and paperwork the arrival of January First doesnt have me looking forward but rather back to 1995. Why? The Volkswagen Polo Harlekin is finally Read more... ... From Jalopnik.com (@iamspeedrunner)... Repin by (@iamspeedrunner)... by @iamspeedrunner. Also, check out https://www.iamspeedrunner.com
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Start Planning To Import This Volkswagen Polo Harlekin Right Now - The final days of December are upon us and soon it will be time to ring in the new year. While we better start getting ready to write2020" on our checks and assignments and paperwork the arrival of January First doesnt have me looking forward but rather back to 1995. Why? The Volkswagen Polo Harlekin is finally Read more... ... From Jalopnik.com (@iamspeedrunner)... by @iamspeedrunner. Also, check out https://www.iamspeedrunner.com
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