Don't Like The Bill Blass Continental Mark VII? Etienne Aigner Golf For You!

by Murilee Martin

Updated: April 13th, 2011 Published: February 3rd, 2011

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Ah, designer-edition cars! The Malaise Era Cartier and Givenchy Lincolns! The Oleg Cassini AMC Matador! The Mark Cross New Yorker! By the early 1990s, you couldn’t get quite the variety of designer-edition cars that we saw in decades past, but Volkswagen wasn’t done yet!

I’d never heard of the Etienne Agner Golf before I spotted this one in an Oakland self-service wrecking yard, but a quick visit to VWVortex filled in the blanks. Only 1,461 Etienne Agner Golfs were sold in North America during their one model year (1991), and it appears that this one wears the no-doubt-much-coveted Mangrove Green Metallic paint. Sadly, this VW has been crushed and reborn as Chinese bridge parts by now.

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Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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Ben5 on Feb 03, 2011

Is it just me or does that logo look like a profile shot of a horse's (or hippo's?) rear end?

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Crabspirits on Feb 03, 2011

My favorite (if you could call it that) of these designer edition cars has to be the Michael Kors Cadillac Deville. It may have only been a concept car though. It had a silver on silver bass boat flake paint job! Seen here in this video. Want to see what happens when you let these designers really run wild? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X54f6B9KWNU

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