Specific to VW paint job called Harlequin. Looks terrible but is legit OEM paintjob and is super rare to see in the wild. If you saw one, consider yourself lucky. 10 times the luck if you saw one somewhere outside Germany.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Looks terrible

Agree to disagree, I think it's fun and whimsical. People take their cars too seriously nowadays.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Knowing nothing about this car I assumed it was just a Jamaican custom paint job, as it's pretty much the Jamaican colors

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 3 hours ago

It looks like an old beat up car for which the owner bought used body parts and didn't bother painting them.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

To me, it just is a special kind of whimsical. I maybe not gonna like it as much as many nice colors some cars offer. But I'd take it over modern black/white/gray painted cars any day.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Used to do track days and car meets a lot (pre-cars and coffee stuff)... I've seen a few of these, always crazy to see them as a lot of people had no clue what they were.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

Not even just rare, but each color combination is unique

There are websites who track their current known status

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I think the name Harlequin was a US thing? I remember them being called Color Concept in Europe, available on Golf and the Polo, from what I recall.

[–] syaochan@feddit.it 3 points 7 hours ago

Here (Italy) there was a driving school that used to have one of these