[Used Car of the Day: 1980 Volkswagen Rabbit / Courtesy of The Truth About Cars] Today’s used car spotlight takes us back to the early ’80s with a true classic: the 1980 Volkswagen Rabbit. Known for ...

This 1980 VW Rabbit Diesel MK1 Hatchback, a clean classic with ~277,000 miles, delivers 45–50 mpg and is a fun project with great bones, featuring a factory sunroof and manual transmission.

For a car that was seemingly everywhere in the 1980s and beyond, the Volkswagen Rabbit is hard to spot on the road today, at least outside of Portland neighborhoods still well stocked with machinery ...

Front-engined hatchbacks are just a normal part of life now, but when the Volkswagen Rabbit came along, they were something new and exciting. The small family-oriented Rabbit hatch that replaced the ...