The Hilarity Of Vintage Volkswagen Complaining About How Automakers Made MPG Claims: COTD

Carmakers are a crafty bunch. In decades past, they made bombastic fuel economy claims and even more bizarre advertisements. Sometimes, ads and brochures were best taken with a grain of salt. But one Volkswagen ad is a little funny.

Jason wrote a Cold Start about the famous 84 MPG Volkswagen ad, wherein VW complained about how other automakers came up with their fuel economy claims. Chartreuse Bison:

Volkswagen complaining about other manufacturers achieving test scores by running the car in a different configuration than real life? Hmmm…

Space:

Can’t wait for the Toecutter review of this Beetle.

J Hyman:

Torch, my young friend, let me tell you about the streaking fad of this era. If VW had really been ‘with it’, they might have reached 85+ mpg with ease!

Jay Mcleod:

I hollered up at Ethel, I said, “Don’t look, Ethel!”
Too late, she’d already got a free shot.

Thomas wrote about how Nissan silently killed the Versa without anyone noticing. It’s a shame, too, because the Versa was an affordable sedan with an available manual transmission. It wasn’t a bad car by the end, either. Hangover Grenade:

It’s funny: I want small, cheap manual sedans like this to exist, but I don’t want to be the one to have to buy one. Everyone else should be buying them!

Enthusiasts want cheap cars to exist, but it seems that not enough of anyone, enthusiasts included, buy these cars. Now, the Versa joins the long list of cheap cars that have been sent to live on a farm upstate.

Brian wrote about how the road trip in his cheap Range Rover is going. V10omous made a small error sound hilarious:

After a brief oil level check, my girlfriend and I set out from New York City at 5 a.m. and pointed ourselves east

Please, the trip is hard enough even going the correct direction.

Have a great evening, everyone!