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« on: May 13, 2011, 09:35:31 pm »
   This ones bugging me ,could someone tell me ,apart from both having batteries and a motor whats the conection with a rabbit and a vw golf?

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Re: rabbit
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 09:38:22 pm »
The Golf was known as the Rabbit in the US
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Re: rabbit
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2011, 09:39:16 pm »
See Wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Golf

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The Volkswagen Golf is a small family car manufactured by Volkswagen since 1974 and marketed worldwide across six generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates — as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada (Mk1 and Mk5), and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico (Mk1).
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Re: rabbit
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2011, 10:01:55 pm »
    Thanks , any idea why they called it a rabbit.

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Re: rabbit
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2011, 12:52:40 am »
    Thanks , any idea why they called it a rabbit.

Probably because is goes like one :wink: :grin:
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Re: rabbit
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2011, 04:07:50 am »
Keep in mind the americans called the original Volkswagen the Beetle.
The Golf Mk. was small and quick, so they called it Rabbit.
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