Yeah I've always preferred the looks of the early Rabbits to anything after. When I first got this car I had a really long commute to work so I'd buy what I called 'disposa-cars', which meant anything that I could get on the cheap, and just drive them til they were dead, haul them to the junkyard, and then get something else. When I got this one, the exceptional mileage made me decide to keep her. That German engineering took some getting used to, as I'd been a Ford V-8 guy for the most part up until then. I read a quote once by an aircraft restorer who was restoring a World War 2 Fw-190 fighter plane which said "If the job could be done with fifty parts, the Germans chose to do it with a thousand." Of course I thought of the Rabbit right away hehe. While I don't think the v-dub is quite that bad, it was still a little different from what I was used to. Still though it's been fun to keep her going and has actually become somewhat of an obsession for me. My girlfriend hates it by the way, and is always pestering me to get something newer, but I just tell her "you find me something that gets this good of mileage and I'll consider it." She hasn't come up with anything yet hehe.