A 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit doesn’t seem like a likely candidate for a Tuner Tuesday nomination, but when Top Gear gets their hands on it, the result is going to be anything but ordinary.
Thus, what you see here is Project Sipster, a car that they wanted to go 0-60 in just 7 seconds, get at least 70 mpg, and cost less than $7,000 to duplicate.
To reach those magic numbers, they yanked the engine out, replaced it with the diesel engine from a 2002 Jetta, and then tuned the engine, body and suspension for a more powerful yet more economical ride.
So did they pull it off?
You’ll just have to watch the video and see:
Who says saving the planet has to be expensive, difficult, and not fun?
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top fame loves cars. His newest acquisition, the Bus Ball, is an artsy interpretation of a VW Microbus, a vehicle with no shortage of unique styling straight from the factory, though this time it’s dropped usability in favor of eye appealability. Though I would have loved to see this thing with some kind of motion involved, I guess it’s just going to have to stick with looking good standing still.
Not only is this a very cool hand shadow puppet commercial, but it’s for the now defunct Volkswagen Phaeton, a simple fact that makes this even more enjoyable to watch.
Job I wish I had: Volkswagen durability driver. These guys get paid to do rally style jumps in Volkswagen vans and speed bump smashes in Volkswagen beetles, and then they get to drive home in their unjumped and unsmashed cars afterwards. If anyone would like to pay me to jump and smash their car for them, my services are definitely for hire.
I was impressed that a Touareg could tow a Boeing 747, but then I found out that 44 little people could pull a DC-10. In Man vs. Beast, a Fox reality TV show, 44 little people squared off against an 8,800-pound elephant to see who could pull the airplane faster. Not surprisingly, the elephant won, [...]
