1979 Volkswagen Rabbit Reviews, Pricing & Specs
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User reviews for 1979 Volkswagen Rabbit
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by Mason L
Mar 15, 2013
It was my first car, it gave me freedom. I drove it like a demon, as much as you can in a '79 diesel Rabbit with 180,000 miles on back roads in Maine in 1990 ... I loved it. It blew up unfortunately.Mar 15, 2013
by Gregory D
May 28, 2008
Great first car for a college student. Paid $450 fof it. Vinyl interior. Manual sunroof. Yellow foglights.May 28, 2008
by Ed B
May 17, 2008
Mine was almost flourescent yellow in color, 4 door, automatic with an after market ac unit. Black vinyl interior that killed you in the summer time. Was great to put the surfboards on the roof and head to the beach. Great on gas and because of the design, really did well on fast corners.May 17, 2008
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by Mason L
Mar 15, 2013
It was my first car, it gave me freedom. I drove it like a demon, as much as you can in a '79 diesel Rabbit with 180,000 miles on back roads in Maine in 1990 ... I loved it. It blew up unfortunately.Mar 15, 2013
by Gregory D
May 28, 2008
Great first car for a college student. Paid $450 fof it. Vinyl interior. Manual sunroof. Yellow foglights.May 28, 2008
by Ed B
May 17, 2008
Mine was almost flourescent yellow in color, 4 door, automatic with an after market ac unit. Black vinyl interior that killed you in the summer time. Was great to put the surfboards on the roof and head to the beach. Great on gas and because of the design, really did well on fast corners.May 17, 2008
by Mike C
Mar 22, 2008
I don't recall a lot of the specs of this car...I'm pretty sure it had a Rabbit 1.6L engine, but
it had been tuned up and had better brakes and suspension. It went under the GTI label
but this application doesn't go earlier than 1983 for Rabbit GTIs, which is of course
incorrect.
It had nice Recaro seats which were standard and an after-market vinyl sunroof which was
huge and opened the entire roof up which was brilliant. I bought with a reconditioned
engine but the guy who fixed it gave me a cracked head and so the thing spewed oil and
black smoke shortly after I go it. I was 18 at the time and my mum threatened to make his
life very difficult if he didn't fix it for free and he relented. My mum had that kind of power
over people!
I loved my GTI...it was great fun, handled well on the many curvy roads we had in West
Vancouver, had good performance while being economical. Mar 22, 2008
1979 Volkswagen Rabbit Pricing
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