The Vario I Concept.

Who else still knows what a cassette tape is? And who can remember My first Sony? Under the label “My first Sony” you could buy brightly colored cassette recorders for the youngest and soon to be pubescent. They were made of brightly colored plastic with large colorful buttons with simplified controls. A cassette tape recorder was the weapon of choice when it came to playing music until well into the 1990s. Off course you had a Walkman or something like that. However it came about, but at #Volkswagen they built an entire car directly around such a cassette recorder. No joke!

Based on a #Golf, a kind of modern buggy was created for the 1990s. The Volkswagen Vario 1 Concept. More 1990s is not really possible. Let’s start with the idea of the buggy, which is both vibrant and far from life. At least in a country like Germany, which I associate above all with the colour grey. The seats combine all the colours of a rainbow.

Apart from that, turquoise is the colour you want to wear – this gives the “my first Sony” cassette recorder in the dashboard special attention. Now have a look, and enjoy this perfect example of a 1990s perspective of a fun car and play some Ace of Base songs to it.

The Vario II Concept

But that was not the end. Less funky and nothing Sony involved, there was another Vario Concept, the Vario II. Same year, different idea. Yet, it’s hard to say what it is, but it`s a 2+2 convertible, that used the same platform as Vario I with the 1.9 litre engine with 100PS. The roof construction was some sort of folding roof targa – with a rather strange seating arrangement, pretty much like a modern interpretation of the “dickey seat”, you find on some 1930s cars.

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Just two years earlier, Citroen had introduced the XM, which fulfilled much of what was expected after a CX. And already there some grumbled. Born as Project N2, #Bertone, among others, was involved in the development of the ZX, and delivered quite interesting designs. But #Citroen wanted to play it safe in the #Golf class. And so the GS did not get a flamboyant successor with a crazy cockpit, but Citroen went the “AX-way”. But let’s take a look at the benchmark from Wolfsburg.

The Golf MKIII, which was also introduced in 1991, lacked all the elegance of the ZX. And when I look at the ZX today, especially the three-door model, it looks amazingly elegant. It looks elongated and offered the most space in its class in terms of length. And while most of the Golf MKIIIs are slowly rusting away, the ZX benefits from partial galvanisation – but most of them have disappeared anyway. So let’s ask the following question: Is it a future classic?

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