RE: NON-ROC Canadian Rabbits

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

While on the subject of US-built Rabbits, when did VW stop production at
Westmoreland?  Was the Rabbit the last model produced there, or did they
build the A2 Golf there for a few years as well?  The '85 A2 GTI was Motor
Trend's Import COTY, which makes me believe it was built elsewhere.

Incidentally, an article I was reading in Ward's Auto World last night
indicated that many industry insiders consider unloading the Westmoreland
facility to be one of the biggest mistakes VW ever made.  They said that
most recently, the facility is vacant and all equipment was shipped to a
manufacturer in China.  Of course, this wasn't leftover VW equipment; if I'm
not mistaken, Sony was making TVs there for some time as well, after VW got
out.

Aaron
'84 Scirocco - Woo-hoo!
'70 Bug - hibernating
'87 Nissan truck - Soon to be for sale
'87 Jeep Cherokee 4.0
> I would concur with Drew on this one. I had an 80 4dr Rabbit,
> and an 80
> Rabbit Diesel P.U. both with square headlights and signals
> (like the early
> ones) in the bumper. I have always heard this particular
> style referred to
> as the Westmoreland Rabbit. I believe they were made in the
> Westmoreland,
> PA, USA. The German Mk1 Golfs (called Rabbits in NA) never had square
> headlights. I think 80 was the last year of the German round headlight
> models for NA but am not positive. Anybody in Germany know
> what was the last
> year of the Mk1 Golf in Europe, 84, Dirk? The last year for
> the US built A1
> Rabbits for NA was 1984 (square headlights with signals in
> the fenders).
> Hope this helps clear up some, this is my limit of
> Golf/Rabbit history :)


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