{"id":2576,"date":"2011-08-13T17:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T01:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2017-05-12T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:18:19","slug":"volkswagens_we_have_known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/13\/volkswagens_we_have_known.html","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagens we have known"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2012<\/a><\/p>\n

We took ownership of a new car this week, a 2012 Golf TDI. It’s the first new car I’ve ever owned and the first car Aimee and I have bought together, but it’s not the first Volkswagen our family has owned. In fact, if I did the math right, it’s actually the tenth VW owned by our immediate family over the last thirty years.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, there was a first generation Jetta<\/A>, the little gold one with the abrasive upholstery. It was the first new car I remember us having as a kid. <\/p>\n

\"1985<\/a><\/p>\n

Next came a 1985 second-generation Jetta<\/A>, which picked up when we were in Germany. We toured the factory at Wolfsburg, drove the car around Europe, and sent it on its way. It’s the car I learned to drive on, and after we sold it, I saw it occasionally in its new home in Homer.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Dad had two second-generation Sciroccos<\/A> in there somewhere, if I remember correctly.<\/p>\n

Next came the 1995 GTI that my dad bought, and which I still drive today, a Mk 3 Golf<\/A>. Here it is not long after we picked it up in Seattle, driving through the Grand Tetons on our way to Rochester.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Next was Scott’s Jetta III<\/A>, which he bought in 1997 when the family was on the East Coast for my graduation. When he was helping me move to Greenwich that week, I promptly cracked the windshield trying to get a box that was too big into his front seat. Sorry. Since then, Scott and Sarah have acquired a fourth generation diesel Jetta<\/A> which Sarah now drives, and Scott’s ride, a fifth-generation Jetta<\/A>.<\/p>\n

Aimee’s Passat was a fifth-generation<\/A> version which she bought new in 2001, and which, after more than ten years of dutiful service on many road trips, we’ve just traded in towards our brand new Mark 6 Golf.<\/p>\n

\"50<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow, we’re taking the car on its first longer drive, and we’ll see how she (he?) does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took ownership of a new car this week, a 2012 Golf TDI. It’s the first new car I’ve ever owned and the first car Aimee and I have bought together, but it’s not the first Volkswagen our family has owned. In fact, if I did the math right, it’s actually the tenth VW owned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-los_angeles","category-miscellany","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}