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 ...

I don't believe this odometer reading, just as I didn't (really) believe the one showing 930,013 miles in this 1982 VW Rabbit Cabriolet. It's possible, though extremely unlikely, that we are looking ...

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.