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Specific to VW paint job called Harlequin. Looks terrible but is legit OEM paintjob and is super rare to see in the wild. If you saw one, consider yourself lucky. 10 times the luck if you saw one somewhere outside Germany.
Agree to disagree, I think it's fun and whimsical. People take their cars too seriously nowadays.
Knowing nothing about this car I assumed it was just a Jamaican custom paint job, as it's pretty much the Jamaican colors
It looks like an old beat up car for which the owner bought used body parts and didn't bother painting them.
To me, it just is a special kind of whimsical. I maybe not gonna like it as much as many nice colors some cars offer. But I'd take it over modern black/white/gray painted cars any day.
Not even just rare, but each color combination is unique
There are websites who track their current known status
Here (Italy) there was a driving school that used to have one of these
I think the name Harlequin was a US thing? I remember them being called Color Concept in Europe, available on Golf and the Polo, from what I recall.
can't find anything regarding the name. Seems like they were always called harlequin.
The only difference is, that the US market got Polos and EU got Golfs
"The only difference is, that the US market got Polos and EU got Golfs"
US market got Golfs, not Polos.
A few years ago i saw one fairly often in Santa Cruz, CA. I bet it's still there puttering around
Used to do track days and car meets a lot (pre-cars and coffee stuff)... I've seen a few of these, always crazy to see them as a lot of people had no clue what they were.
To see a sewer explosion up close is super rare, consider yourself lucky! 😁
BTW the harlekin costume is ugly AF IMO.