To you ”foreign” Let’s talk about a car. If you also have an obsession with paints and paints, then this POLO, which may seem strange to you, is actually a much more meaningful car than it looks.

It’s not a repainted car It comes straight from the factory. So how did the auto giant Volkswagen sign such a strange project? What is the place of these color combinations in automotive history? Where does the name actually come from?

In 1963, a colorful advertisement for the Beetle appeared in American newspapers.

The star of this commercial, the Beetle, wore parts from cars from different years. VW, which has used different colored cars to emphasize that these parts come from different years, said that with this ad the parts of their cars are compatible with each other, which is why the Beetle’s no shortage of spare parts emphasizes that it offers an experience to the consumer.

Volkswagen was proud of that at the time because it was an unusual situation for the US market, which underwent a make-up and change every year, and after this ad, Volkswagen has been doing this for a long time. did not touch the idea of ​​advertising. Until the calendars indicated the year 1995.

Do you just have to be?

While Volkswagen executives played with the old commercials, Ferdinand Piech, the manager who coincided with the ad we just mentioned, created a concept for the POLO model cars with the 6N1 chassis they produced through this ad. Volkswagen bought 20 of their newly produced POLOs and painted different parts of them in different colors. Made the POLO Harlequin.

Whether human or car, Harlekin is fun in every way.

Except for the psycho clown girls, of course. Harlekin is a name given to jesters who lived in ancient times.. The colors of these jesters, which we usually see in checkered and multicolored clothing, are red, yellow, blue and green. They are the same color combinations that Polo Harlekin wears on his panels.

The name of the car is actually a take from the jester Although it may seem like a bad image at first, POLO already has an image that wants to be a fun little car with its name and design. Adding more fun to a fun car never hurts, right?

Harlekin brings joy to the streets!

When there was a lot of interest in 20 cars, which were produced only for auto shows and advertisement, VW company responded to this public interest. thousand a limited series of cars offered for sale. Due to high demand, these colorful cars 2800 Volkswagen, which had to produce more, was amazed at the great interest they attracted.

However, without spending an extra cent by producing these cars as they show in their own advertisements. They met the demand with VW style. If 1000 cars were produced, they would produce 250 yellow, 250 green, 250 blue and 250 red POLOs and change all the parts of the factory to produce POLOs.

We can add POLO to your menu with a difference of 1 TL.

European people loved POLOs so much that McDonald’s, He even organized a campaign where 500 Harleks were given as gifts. The terms of the campaign McDonalds organized to celebrate its 25th anniversary in Germany were simple. It was a campaign with a system that you apply when you make a complete POLO from the cropped POLO photos that came with the menus, and you won a lottery. With this campaign, the demand for Harlekin increased even more and VW was unable to meet this demand.

But on the other side of the world, things didn’t go as planned.

Unlike Europe, America has never been a region where POLO is sold. Instead of POLO, VW tried a new tactic by converting 264 GOLFs to the Harlekin version and putting them up for sale. Interest in Harlekin GOLFs was so low that VW dealers replaced the parts from the cars they had with the ones they came from and turned them into solid color GOLFs. There were even dealers who painted and sold the cars that they couldn’t convert. Short in America end as it began Harlekin became a series.

A sales policy where we don’t configure cars is not a very well-functioning policy. Harlekin was also a car under this policy.

Since there is no color palette to configure in the first place, you don’t have much choice. Harlekin, which comes from the factory with four different combinations, offers you a store you’ll be happy with, no matter what combination.. Features such as ABS are standard and POLO’s stereo, which is brought to you with its full package, was Blaupunkt brand. The tiles, on the other hand, had a different pattern called “Joker” tile.

With this strange interior, in which a blue coating has been chosen for the steering wheel, you can zero customization rights gives Harlekin POLO. You can tell the original color of the car coming to you by the color of the roof, rear column panels, skirt and engine bath, which you cannot disassemble.

Harlekin, which has been followed and loved by a large audience since the day it was produced, has huge fan clubs, especially in the European region.

For these cars, which have become more famous recently, VW company even released a Harlekin POLO last year to commemorate Harlekin. although collectible And whether it concerns passenger cars, it would not be wrong to expect that these cars, whose average price is around 5,000 euros, will be even more valuable in the future.