Used Car of the Day: 1981 Volkswagen Pickup

by Tim Healey

Published: December 5th, 2022

used car of the day 1981 volkswagen pickup

The Ford Maverick has gotten a lot of attention over the past year, but it was preceded by many a small pickup. Including this 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit.

This example has a 1.6-liter diesel engine, a four-speed manual transmission, and a tick over 60,000 miles. It still has the factory Forest Green Metallic paint, and it's in South Carolina. The trim level is LX, and the seller claims there are only two rust spots.

Sadly, pics and further info are limited unless you login to see their Facebook post. But from what I can see, it really does look clean -- and it could make a VW nut very happy. The seller is asking $14,500.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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3SpeedAutomatic on Dec 07, 2022

It's way over priced!!
Lots of other orphan cars which would like to be brought home and pampered and would be far less temperamental than a VW!!

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Doc423 on Dec 07, 2022

I'd buy that little truck if it was about a third of what that moron is asking.

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Fed65767768 Timothy, if you can't find a cool / interesting car to highlight, perhaps just skip your used car of the day post.
Daniel J The more I looked into this I'm like..Huh? I'm thinking China wants to bring over a 35k nice EV, not some sort of Mitsu Mirage that barely can go highway speeds.
Kwik_Shift_Pro4X Genre based USB sticks. Only radio I listen to is AM talk radio.
Tassos We, not Porsche, will be the judge of that.
Tassos Yeah, right, that's the ticket.a 22 year old worthless piece of crap painted in Fire Engine Red (Or is it Clown red) , with at least 153,000 miles on it, masquerading as a "used car".Some moron here will soon repeat that this is a good car to get for his teen daughter, just because the stupid girl likes the styling and the "image" of a POS Golf better than the COROLLA or CIVIC she should get instead. I would not get this EVEN if it was a LEXUS of same age, miles and price.Remember the "separation theorem"?"A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED".And it is not as if Tim never proposed some POS VW, almost one in every two of his worthless finds are that DAMNED automaker. AND those who call it damned are ITS OWNERS. Like "My Damned GTI broke down again"...Hey, maybe that loser the PHONY Tassos (yoiu know the loser, the clown who likes Kias and Idiot Joe Biden) will buy it for his 'most likely to conceive" daughter.