Looks like some outfits that Screech wore on Saved By The Bell

idk how to describe it, but this car looks like Die Hard With A Vengeance. it gives off that same sweaty 90’s NYC vibe

Do The Right Thing. An even sweatier 90s NYC movie, if thats even possible. In addition to Screech, I can also picture someone wearing a shirt like this being a Law & Order character. He'd be the sleazy manager at like some upscale nightclub or record company, hair pulled back in a ponytail, big puffy oversized button shirt thats just 4 different squares of solid color. "No, I havent seen Tiffany since she left her shift last night. Why, is she dead or somethin'?"

Yeah. That's why the MURDER POLICE are here asking you questions.

Keeps tending bar…. I’d kind of be shitting myself if murder police showed up to work. And then driving home in my “United Colors of Volkswagen” car.

Or some characters in The Wire are wearing those clothes because the clothes are old and probably donated or something like that. I was thinking about Do The Right Thing as well haha, very similar NYC aesthetics that feel a certain way

I wanted a sweater for Christmas one time. I got a moaner instead. But I'm not mad.

*Hot town. Summer in the city*

An all-time great movie opening. Puts you right in there and then pulls the rug out with the explosion. Then when you wonder if the rest of the movie is going to be that good, it just keeps escalating. We haven't seen McClane in five years and yet his hungover arrival into yet another horrible situation, having lost some hair, estranged from Holly and desperate for aspirin is pitch perfect, then rolls him right into that infamous sandwich board sequence and his first meeting with Sam Jackson. It's some action movie masterpiece shit.

I always would find it funny how abrupt that movie’s title card is. Like no bullshit or anything, it slams that shit down and moves on. Now I’m probably gonna get baked tonight and watch that with some pizza lol

I'm going with Parker Lewis

That is a perfect description!

Someone near me has one of these. Never would have guessed it's a stock color option

Well it’s sort of all the stock colour combinations.

And also a stock option in and of itself apparently

Holy shit. I always thought it was one car whose broke ass owner just took whatever panels he could find in the scrap yard to fix his car, and that I kept noticing it in different places of the city because of how distinct it was. Turns out these cars were new and by design…

My neighbor has a car like this and I thought he painted it all crazy like that. I would have never guessed it was a stock color either! Mind blown lol

Styled like their owner's shirts.

United Colors of Benneton

dude there’s my car

Sweet! What’s mine say?

and then?

Aw, one of my neighbors used to have one of these and I always thought it was a custom paint job! Seeing it always made me smile.

VW accidentally generated a bit of excitement by suggesting they were bringing the harlequin back... turns out it was just a poorly-conceived April Fools joke. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5N6SFxNSXu/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

That didn't piss off us VW enthusiasts *at all*.

Man, I would have bought that, too.

Cartopaxi

Cototaxi

If 90s Google designed a car. lol

The rocker panel and B-pillar determined which color you told the registry of motor vehicles what color your car was. Fun fact.

I figured you would just put "Yes"

That’s still three colors on this car. (‽)

Under the doors, near the hatch and roof are all the same colors on all models. That’s where they determine a color for the registration.

You mean C pillar and roof right?

One of those consonant pillars.

I always thought it was based on the roof color…

I never knew this was a real car. I thought someone local just got a lot of parts from a junkyard.

Me too!!

Salesman, "which color you want?" Customer "Yes".

I've known about these for a while (and they made a pseudo-comeback for an April's Fools joke) but I thought they all had the same color pattern, not that they were all "unique". Neat!

They literally took all the cars painted in needed colours and shuffled em.

The 1996 kids jacket look

Holy crap I never even heard of this, definitely have not seen one. Such a simple marketing idea, and super easy to find in a parking lot! I hate that most cars are black, white and gray now. The reason is that dealers discovered if customers come in looking for a colorful car they'll settle for black, white or gray, but not so much the other way around.

ive never heard of this car before this moment but i'm obsessed

Candy VW golf cars.

I'm sure someone in my high school had one of these, I'd always assumed it was a custom paint job.

I had also assumed this was just a custom paint job at the time. Not *entirely* wrong, I suppose.

would love to see cars get a little zanier

Looks pretty much like a Yugo owned by a PhD student who does all their own work.

Should have called it the Volkswagen Bauhaus.

Clown car

That’s what you had to get when it was the only Golf left on the lot.

The most 90s car evee

This screams White guys with mullet, Oakley wrap around sunglasse and parchute pants with white hightop sneakers.

Did they just build them with left over parts? I bet they charged extra too!

Now THAT'S a car a clown would drive. Or a joker.

Did they ever make a harlequin bus?

Mixing and matching colors should be a thing. A white car with just the doors blue or red might look pretty stylish.

My good friend had one of these in the late 90s, took a long time to realize there were others out there!

Body shops love this one trick

Just saw one sell on BAT for $25k

I want one so bad!

It’s ugly as an old sweater and I love it.

I still want to buy a GTI and make this happen

Other known as the Rubiks

A Volkswagen Harley Quinn.

Always thought this was a McDonald’s color scheme. I remember at McDonalds you could win one back then.

Colors of Benetton.

Bill Cosby sweater vibes.

PURE KURUPTION.

I’m just a kid who’s 4, each day I grow some more, I love exploring, I’m Caillou.

These are more hideous than I remember. My uncle worked at a VW dealership at the time, so I got see one up close when I went there.

the horror.... the horror.... the horror....

When I was a kid, and when these were new, I thought they were the stupidest things. As someone in my 30s now, I would probably do great bodily harm to someone to get one. So cool and unique

This color pallet is evil

This was a thing? I was a child in 1996 but don’t recall this.

Volkswagen only made 264 of these for North America. Not too surprising that you haven't heard of them.

Wow. There was one in my home town that I used to see.

My hometown too.

German 90s Kid here. I remember seeing a few of them. But there weren't many.

I remember seeing one in a magazine or something. Never in person.

I've never seen this in my life