2007 Rabbit Review
It seems many Journaists made the trek to Mont Tremblant Quebec to review the canadian rabbit.
The Winnipeg Free Press Online Edition has a review of the 2007 Rabbit.
Car and Driver has their first drive of the 2007 Rabbit.
The Globe and Mail's GlobeAuto rabbit review.
Question: how do you buy a new Audi for $20,000?
Answer: stop at your local VW store and order a Rabbit.
OK, so you don't get the four circles of the Auto Union on the grille and some of the metallic or woodgrain bling is missing from the interior, but the new Rabbit (nee Golf) is the funky, sporty German compact that's as quiet, smooth and refined as its richer cousins.
More so than the also recently redesigned Jetta, more so than the excellent Passat, the Rabbit has the feel of VW's upscale luxury brand, primarily due to its fantastic sporty feel.
Rabbit, as some of you may recall, was the name of VW's compact sedan back in the 1980s. Plagued by poor reliability, the Rabbit name was retired in favour of Golf, by which the car has gone elsewhere in the world. And then Golf went on to have some reliability problems of its own.
Now, VW, in Canada and the U.S. at least, is going back to the Rabbit. John White, vice-president of Volkswagen and CEO in Canada, said reaction to the name change has been positive, primarily among those who don't remember the name from previous versions.
While the body work and interior got subtle makeovers, the biggest change is under the hood: the 2.5-litre, 150-horsepower five-cylinder engine from Jetta has come down to Rabbit, and in this car, it sings.
