Doesn't show up on the VW USA site. Lucky Germans still get it though!

Are you really just going down this page making the same comment?

I've wanted one of these for such a long time - I was telling my friend just that, and he had to Image Search it. I was sad.

A thousand times yes!

It didn't originally.

I read your comment before the others; I apologize.

That's the same image. The article image is photoshopped. Look at all the reflections.

I've observed similar things about my friend's Vanagon (not the one pictured here but quite similar), though I haven't driven it yet myself.

But it's so excited!

I drive a 1990 Golf with a 1.8 8V, and I expect to "upgrade" to the 2.0 8V at some point. 'Tis a sad existence indeed.

I always have to tell people not to adjust mine, because I know the seats will never be exactly symmetric/even again. A friend of mine wanted to lie down in my passenger seat, but I couldn't let it happen.

I'm a huge VW fan, and even an art car fan, but I never really understood this.

It's such a cool design! Too bad they're ticking time bombs . . . all of them.

We do, in America, which I assume is where everyone lives.

I've burned myself on my heat shields - both legs. Blisters and all. An exhaust tip is nothing in comparison. See Cobra comment.

That's weird! I've never heard of that before.

I converted mine to normal belts a year after getting my car . . . a dismal year.

The single wheel should have been in the rear.

More info on the E46 design (it wasn't really Bangle):

Are you sure it's because it doesn't fit? I was always told that it was for better cooling/airflow to the engine and helped keep the car planted because air under the car would go up and exit through the tailgate. It was already vented.