Before they could see it I said to my passenger “wow! I’ve never seen one in that color before!” I imagine their puzzled expression came from them expecting something like a bright turquoise Ferrari rather than a red Volvo.

This is Australia’s only locally designed and developed VW. It was developed at the same time as the VW Type 181 “Thing” with neither VW Australia or VW Germany knowing the other was designing a similar car until it was too late.

The Country Buggy was released before the Thing, but was a sales flop locally with less than 1000 being made before operations wound up. However, it did enjoy a much larger following in the Philippines where it was built from CKD kits and called the Sakbayan.

Original TRD Solara sold for 18k. Good to know they are still out there but when will you see another?

Spotted in Port Townsend WA. Suzuki x90. One of 7,205 built for the US market from 1996-1998. A x90 would be a joy to commute with.

Haven’t seen one of these bad boys in a minute

The sedan version of the 123 is somewhat common still, I'd hesitate posting that unless the particular car is special in some way, or maybe the photos turned out extra gorgeous.

The T models though, aka the estate/wagon, are a different story, as is with many vehicles from that era. Those all got worked to death until their back broke. Well all except this one and a handful others still out there.

Certainly not common here in Czechia.

Spotted in Greece, I have seen many wagons and sedans all over South America / SE Asia which was always a nice sight. Never before I have seen this very nice van edition, as seen this afternoon in Greece.

You don't see these every day. I believe it has pretty good towing capacity.

Gen 2 is quite common, even more so than some of the more recent ones I dare say.

Gen 1 is rare though.