V-Dub Luv

Two weeks ago on Saturday, I brought my new baby home.

A 2002 Volkswagen Cabrio. I love this little buggy. I’ve wanted a convertable in a bad way since last summer, to have as a summer car. A few weeks age I drove with a friend in his little Mercedes convertable, and the very next day I was out hunting one down for myself. I picked the Cabrio for it’s sporty-ness. It’s a very zippy little car. I had the idea to get a two seater, when both my dad and my sister came up with good reasons against it. Supposedly, insurance is higher, says my sister, and my dad, who can never believe all the baggage I always travel with, asked where I would put all my stuff. Points taken. The Cabrio has a full trunk, and the insurance rate for me was pretty low for 6 months, which is all I’ll need on it anyways, as I’m planning on storing it over the winter. Even though this one is 5 years old, and it’s had 3 previous owners, it only has 40,000 miles on it, and the interior, even though it’s been detailed, is in near perfect condition.

I drove it up to Michigan last week, and I can honestly say it was the best 5 and a half hour drive ever. Ever. While I love my Jeep to pieces, and will never never ever part with it (seriously, my unborn kids will be taking it off to college) the Jeep was given to me by my parents, while the Cabrio, the Cabrio is Earned. And that feels amazingly good.

Louie would like me to take him for a ride. He’s cute.

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25 Responses to V-Dub Luv

  1. Cara says:

    Congratulations! Drive it well!

  2. Romi says:

    Coooool! I love VWs. 🙂

  3. crzjane says:

    That is one cute little car. I can just picture you tooling around town in it. Have fun!

  4. Chris says:

    Congrats!! They are sweet little cars. My friend Jan bought one about two years ago and loves it.

  5. Kat says:

    Oh, I LOVED my Rabbit Convertible. (I got mine before they were dubbed Cabrios.) That car was awesome.

  6. Kathy says:

    It’s so cute!

  7. Mintyfresh says:

    my old boss, who let me borrow his car all the time, used to have a Cabrio. I [hearted] that car so very much. (Later, he would trade it in for a Forrester, which I loved, and then a Prius, which I also loved. Perhaps I’m easy when it comes to cars; I don’t know, not ever having owned one!)

  8. Jen says:

    I love it. But do not EVER take a black car through a gas station car wash. You’ll be shelling out $90 at the local Shur-Brite to get it buffed out. Gas-station-car-wax is terrible … ask me how I know. 🙂 Use the kind where you drive into a bay and spray it instead…and turtle wax. 🙂

  9. Sweet!! I hope you took Louie for a ride, he looks adorable 🙂

  10. Heather says:

    Mazel tov! Such a cute car…

  11. Arleta says:

    Your new baby is just so cute! LOL

  12. stacey says:

    congrats!! convertibles are a blast – I used to have a Miata and loved it!

  13. mel says:

    Congrats – Awesome car!! he he, there was a liscense plate on a VW where we used to live “VDUBLUV” – at the time my husband and I had a Golf (him) and a Jetta (me) and we thought it was so cute – “LUV” became the name that we called any VW that we saw on the road “There’s some LUV over there”, and we joked about getting cheesy matching plates “LUVU” and “LUVU2” 🙂

  14. Amanda says:

    I am a vw adict. I learned to drive on a 73 super beetle who we called Dubbs. When I saved enough to buy my own car I went with a Jetta. I dream of owning a convertable VW Karmann Ghia (produced in the 60s and 70s). Some day…..

    Love the new wheels! Enjoy!

  15. chris says:

    OMG your new little car is SO CUTE!!

  16. kelpkim says:

    nice car!
    and that picture w/louie is too cute.
    it’s all over his face–
    “you must take me around the block! i want the wind in my (face) hair!”
    :o)congrats!!!

  17. lesley says:

    I absolutely love the V-dub!!! Enjoy it you deserve it!!!!!
    🙂

  18. Melissa says:

    Congrats! It’s so cute!

  19. Marisol says:

    Very nice! I Love bugs! I have a Passat myself!

    Enjoy:)

  20. isela says:

    Congrats! It is a nice looking car 🙂

  21. jennifer says:

    i LOVE it – perfection! that was actually the car i was about to get when i found out i was pregnant with my girls, and it’s not exactly twins-and-all-the-gear-that-comes-with-them-friendly, so i will live vicariously through you until about 10 years from now when i can get one. have a BLAST 🙂

  22. Sil says:

    Hot car! You should have driven it to MD, the weather was convertible perfections…

  23. Carrie says:

    So! Cute! Especially with Louie in the picture.

  24. amy says:

    KYOOOT!!! welcome to the v-dub club. it’s more of a cult, really. have you accelerated while going around a curve yet? ;]

  25. nancy says:

    Hy,

    nice car. I’m from Germany, as you can see on my e-mail. 🙂
    Your Car is very nice and lucky.

    Great Car

    Nancy