I agree the Ghia is way prettier but I love my Rabbits! It's convertible with leather, manual, 2.0, all the stuff I wanted for her first car lol. That really sucks by the way, how did that go down?!
I was buying it while I was in Italy from another American. Whenever you sell/buy a car that was registered in Europe through the Army it has to be inspected on post.
So I had looked at/driven the car multiple times before I decided to purchase. We agreed on a price and a date to go get it inspected and head to the registration office afterwards to make it official.
At the inspection it started to have some trouble running, sputtering and what not. The dumbass inspecting then proceeded to rev the dog piss out of it, certainly over revving (because no rev limiter). I the run out and tell him what a dumbass he was and asked what his logic was. It pissed him off so from that point on he looked for every little thing he could be nd wrong with a 60 year old car and failed it on the inspection.
At that point the owner said they wanted to go get everything fixed before they would be comfortable selling it. I offered to buy at a slightly discounted rate and accepting all responsibility to get it inspected again within 30 days.
They declined and said they would call me when it was fixed. About 3 months later and 1 month before I moved back to the states I got the call. By that point I had to much going on trying to get ready to leave.
Last I saw same person still has it and is still trying to sell it.