WASHINGTON, D.C. – Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced today a national search for two significant vehicles from its diesel-powered past, in celebration of its 30th anniversary of selling diesel-powered passenger cars in the U.S. The announcement, made today at the 2007 Washington Auto Show kicks off searches for the oldest running Volkswagen diesel vehicle and the Volkswagen diesel with the highest accumulated mileage. Full Story...

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Wait What?

They just let them borrow it?

If these people are still driving their rabbits after all this time, don't ya think you can give them a new SUV and not just rent one to them?

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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

How about a leftover First Act guitar son?

thats what i thought.

stupid search, no one is going to want to really do it.

Cant any of you guys read? Where does it say VW is keeping the cars?

as far as borrowing the Toureg, I'd mob the s**t out of that car.

^^^ it would come back very dirty.

When I was at the Detroit Auto show, Saab had an old 900 with over 1Mil miles on it still running on original engine and turbo. The owner received a brand new 2006 9-3 Aero.

VW is just gonna let the drive a Touareg for six months?

Pfffft!
In 6 months that beast will burn the same amount of fuel their rabbit will consume in a decade. You gotta be crazy to enter the contest!

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the_q_jet (12:35 PM 11-30-2006): oh might guru of the mk4 2.0 how art thou!?

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wheres vasillalov when i need him

They need to find that guy. I even have a pic of the car, owner, and large sign he had displayed on the windshield somewhere....

And, the tendency of VW odometers to break makes things tricky.

The funny thing about my odometer, is it broke for between 1-2 years. That means it really has around 350K on it.

Bingo, beat me to it. What odo on a VW actually works after 160K?!?!

As for the rest of you, chill the F out!! I'm not some VW fan-boy, but give em a break. They don't have to do jack-Fn-shizzle for anyone, but they're giving up two $60K plus vehicles to use for free. Last time I checked, VW was LOSING tens (if no thundreds) of millions of dolars in the US. The fact they're doing anything is a nice gesture.

If someone came to your door with a $10million check, with no strings attached, you'd flock to the Tex to complain about it somehow. Give it a rest already.

'04 Golf TDI, 35k miles?

Do I win?

My Dad bought an '81 diesel rabbit new, but he go rid of it in 1989. The thing, in his own words, would not go up a hill it was so unpowered.

ya i think u win, wheres ur touareg

2.0 with an 020, not AUTO anymore

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oh,now everybody are on mkI forum?

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You should let him know about this.

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They really should just give them a new car. Not let them borrow it for 6 months. Thats Bull. After a faithfulll cool million your just gunna let me test drive one, not keep it, just get the taste.

Agreed. The search is a great idea.....but the prize sucks.

-Jason

Cool idea and I agree, why a Touareg for only 6 months? This idea is being kicked off on the heels of Saab's promotion where every radio station was talking about it. I think my local station would poke fun at VW for the 6 months part and call them cheap bastards.

They should have postponed the idea until there was a diesel rabbit and given it to them to keep.

I miss my Jetta I had 486,000 miles on it when she was totaled in 93. By now she would be well over a million miles which was my intent.

My 81 Rabbit Diesel had 401,000 when I sold it for $400. That was 1989 thats when I bought my jetta. My buddy drove that rabbit to 600,000+ miles when he sold it for $400. It was still getting 45mpg running pizzas and at that time burning 1.5 quarts per 10,000 miles.

I doubt very much my 2000 New Beetle 1.8T will make it to half that milage.

hey read the article..you aren't giving your car to VW..they just want to write something on it and take it to a few events probably.

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