Why would VW give away a somewhat expensive yet ultimately worthless (to most buyers) guitar with yo

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Back in the 1990s, Volkswagen and Trek Bicycles got together for a co-branding deal that shook the world (if you define the world as a couple of zip codes in Marin County ): Golfs and Jettas with sporty-looking upholstery, roof racks, and matching Trek bikes! 15 years later, vacation packages la jolla travel agency all but the most fanatical VW and/or bicycle zealots have forgotten the Trek Limited Edition VWs, which makes this an especially rare Junkyard Find.
Rather than the scenes depicting drunk 350-pound dudes blasting seagulls with shotguns in the liquor-store parking lot that one will find embroidered into the upholstery of the super-rare Bakersfield Sportsman Edition Ford F-150 from the same era, the Trek Edition Jetta s seats feature healthy stick-figure VW drivers doing healthy aerobic activities. There s basketball, running, and— of course— bike riding.
My favorite special edition of a German car is still the Wolfsburg Edition VWs that had the tiny little castle badge on the fender. Has there ever been a fussier little badge on a vehicle that WASN T a brougham edition?
My Jetta MKII GL had a little castle indicating it was German, but there were Wolfsburg Edition cars in the late 80s with more elaborate castles that signified special trim, dark grey paint, and upgraded wheels. There was even a Pennsylvania built Wolfsburg vacation packages la jolla travel agency Edition Golf.
Yep, but compared to what else VW was offering in special editions in 96 the Trek was positively restrained and beautiful! The 96 Polo Harlequin destroys any comers in terms of awful special edition hands down. In fact here s a challenge for the B B find a worse, more tasteless special edition car, any time era.
Ahh, back when VW had some boxy character to their vehicles and they didn t look like everything else. I actually liked this era of Jetta with a 5 speed. Decently fun to drive and they didn t look like a Corolla. The TREK edition seemed popular with the recently graduated college crowd. Actually the boxy Jetta was very popular when I was in college in the midwest in the mid 90 s.
I knew a couple women that bought these things new as they were trading up from the college era hooptie. The bike was stolen in both cases, probably more to do with the hipster community they lived in than anything else. The vehicles vacation packages la jolla travel agency lasted until both got married. Now they are driving Odyssey s, natural course of life I guess.
vacation packages la jolla travel agency I almost bought one of these in 1996 after finding real employment after college. After the 2nd test drive, I decided I wanted vacation packages la jolla travel agency a 318ti more. In the end, I bought a used E28 535 for $3700 because I was a cheap bastard.
My dad offered to give me his old E28 535i a few years ago. I declined out of respect for what had been his mechanical pride and joy; I had no place to park it and street parking in my inner-city neighborhood would have trashed vacation packages la jolla travel agency it. Of course, now that I ve decamped to the suburbs I m kicking myself
That s kinda neat. I wish the manufacturers did more of this sort of thing. I know a lot of folks think it s tacky (and I guess it is) but to me it adds some fun and interest. We could use more of that these days.
We got one of these guitars with my wife s VW New Beetle. Dumbest promotion ever. Since the vast majority of people don t play a guitar it had no value to most buyers. If you already play a guitar you probably did not need a free one from VW.
Why would VW give away a somewhat expensive yet ultimately worthless (to most buyers) guitar with your car vs. something that buyers could actually use (5 years free satellite radio, upgraded wheels?). Plus, who is playing an electric guitar in their VW size car?
I remember these. There was a brand new Jetta Trek on display in the Kingdome during the 1996 Seattle Mariners season, in red with its matching bike. I ve seen a few around Seattle, although never with their bikes.
Once in a while one of the matching bikes comes into my shop for a tune up. Saw one a few months ago, and I was struck by how awful the thing was for a mid 90 s mountain bike. It was really meant to be hung up on a hook in someones garage rather than taken for a ride on a mountain.
Anyone who was a participant in the sport would not have considered the inclusion of that bike as a bonus with their Jetta, same goes for the K2 skis that came with the K2 edition (I haven t had to tune a pair of those in years!)
Correct me if I m wrong, but wasn t the Trek bike paired with this car an 850? If so, it s actually a pretty good choice of rides. At the time that was Trek s upper-entry level offering which is light-years better than any non-enthusiast was riding at the time. Any true enthusiast was probably riding something north of $1500 so they d just sell the 850 anyway.
Not going to call you wrong because not model or every year (did they do it multple years?) is neccesarily the same, but the ones I have seen are Hi-ten frames and forks with a mostly tourney drive train and non series canti-brakes. There is some memory involved here.
That old tourney and el cheezo cantis with soft wheels take 5 times longer to tune then a decent set up and never come out as well. It is hard to wow your customer with your awesome tuning skills when stuff is that fickle. We try though.
If the frames are hi-ten you re probably right about it being an 800. I think the 850s of the time were using the True Temper CroMo frames. Those old 800s were decked out in SIS components with an Acera X rear derailleur so I m sure you re seeing these bikes with the second or third set of components on them.
So, so wanted one of these when I was in college in Colorado. Tried to trade in my 91 Jeep Wrangler four-banger for one, but couldn t swing it. Remember this was one of the first massive internet campaigns by a major corporation. It was a good package; fugly seats, but VW is known for having vacation packages la jolla travel agency interesting seating.
Side note: My buddy had a 98 Jetta that he loved and took to Germany while stationed there. It broke down frequently, finally forcing him to take it to the German mechanic who, after looking under the hood for two seconds, loudly and angerly slammed the hood shut. Stunned, my friend asked the problem. Its a VW, Deustchland friendly right? NO! , he thundered in perfect English. Not German. MEXICAN! No good! , and stormed away.
To be fair, unless you bought the VR6 edition, the 2.0L four banger units from the factories in Mexico were unfailingly unreliable. VW had a helluva time keeping these going until the factory warranty settled out. The German made Bora , was far better in reliability ratios, though VW didnt sell many as hatchbacks and wagons sell better.
We had a mexican Jetta and a german Jetta. Think original and copy . The German car had better plastic and rubber, and lasted quite a bit longer. I ll NOT buy a non German VW .which is why the TDi models are so expensive they come from Germany, and the euro + building a quality small car, not a Cobalt competitor, costs more.
Wow, Just looking at that thing carefully tells me that it either had poor (small) brakes or didn t weigh so much as you might think. I would have thought the disks would be larger, especially on a German car, even in that era, but maybe not. I am going to guess 1800-2200 lbs. That may also explain the insubstantial looking rear suspension setup.
I rode in one that was driven hard, (briefly) from/in that era, and it did feel big, heavy and taut as a German car should- in spite of it s apparently low weight by today s standards, but I bet it ate brakes regardless of the weight- due to the driver. I don t believe it felt like what it truly probably weighed.
The thing about Volkswagens vacation packages la jolla travel agency is you always look at them closely and think Hmm, weird instead of Oh, okay, that makes sense. vacation packages la jolla travel agency On the honest car scale I could never score them over a two or three, an old wrangler being a 10. We should attempt an honest car scale at TTAC someday, it would be a good exercise, since I see the term being toyed with often here recently.
vacation packages la jolla travel agency Wow, more than I would have thought, vacation packages la jolla travel agency especially based on brake size. If I really wanted to be drastic I would have said 2400-2500 max. 2700-3000+ is modern day C segment car weight and they have bigger brakes. vacation packages la jolla travel agency Holy cow that thing must have ate up those brakes. That s enlightening. They look fairly small.
At that time VW also offered a Golf Harlequin, which was just a four-door with randomly-painted body panels. Red hood, blue door, green fender A friend of mine tried to buy one, but luckily for him the financing fell through. Maybe the loan officer saw it
I rode to my first mountain bike race in a friend s brand-new 99 Golf. I always suspected the Trek tie-in kind of nudged him into going VW. He traded it for a Subaru a couple years later, probably a better vacation packages la jolla travel agency choice if you spend a lot of time driving to trail heads.
IMHO, this was the best generation for VW. The Golf was great, the GLI was nearly a luxury car, the GTI was great (had one) and the marketing was great. This is the generation VW/Jetta that brought VW back from near extinction in the US. The Jetta was a car for young professionals right out of college, and well kept ones still look good.
I really love this generation of Jetta. I thiink they re so good looking just the right proportions, just the right angles, perfect balance vacation packages la jolla travel agency between chiseled and curved. To my eye it is just such a clean, balanced design.
I wanted one so bad, but Im too afraid it will turn into a money pit. One of my friends bought a used 1998(?) Wulfsburg, black, and looked like it was inreally good condition I remember being 19 and thinking it was gorgeous, The thing ended up having some major engine/trans component fail within a week or