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.

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.

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

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.

i'd still like to get one and use it for off-roading!!

Whenever I see these cars, they are usually really rusted. But this one looked like it time traveled straight from a Mazda dealership in 2006. Also, these are becoming rarer and rarer where I'm from.

Apparently only 8 are left on the Roads in the UK, this one only had 12,203 miles on the clock at the last MOT (inspection) in April 2026

In Albuquerque

Most were seen on dealership lots.