[RedDevil]

Dutch summers must be brutal too then as the interior of my '86 Deasel single cam Rabbit started crumbling like crazy in just, err, 18 years...
By then it had 390.000 km on the odo, and I switched off the engine before rolling to a stop so I would not have to exit the car in a cloud of black smoke.
Then a fairy coughed on the front bumper, and everything caved in like a soufflé in a hail storm. The headlights were facing each other.
I pulled it back in shape with my bare hands, then drove it to the wrecking yard well aware that the crumpling zone actually started at my ankles.

The VW was the worst car I ever owned by a margin, even though it got the highest mileage. But the stories... I once got it jump started by two policemen. By the time it finally ran they were sweating and cursing.
That sloshing sound in the boot, fuel? No, window wiper fluid. It had a big tank under the bonnet and it emptied itself rather quickly - into the boot...
I did not know whether it was green or black when I first saw it. It was my then girlfriend's car, she drove it for 1500 km a year - a diesel, mind you - and obviously never ever washed it. When I did it turned out to be white. We're married now and the Rabbit is gone. Life is good