Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. How much power does a car really need? For the 1,750-pound ...

From the June 1977 issue of Car and Driver. It was with great churning of the stomach and aching of the head that some of us approached the Diesel Rabbit. When the first rumblings of such an animal ...

Was there a slower new US-market car in 1981? On the plus side, fuel economy was phenomenal. The interior in the Rabbit was a bit nicer than that of the Japanese and American subcompact competition.