Today's Nice Price or No Dice VW Caddy is a truck built for and in the land of the pickup, the U.S.A. Let's see if its price and condition will ensure domestic bliss. There are 26 letters in the ...

America has always been the home of the pickup truck, but as more and more companies started importing economy cars into the country, they realized some of them could be turned into trucks too. The ...

YouTuber Rich Rebuilds is swapping the engine of a first-gen Volkswagen Caddy, otherwise known as the Mk1 VW Golf-related Rabbit Pickup, for a Suzuki Hayabusa four-banger. While unconventional, the ...

To most people, this discussion is totally pointless. Volkswagen doesn't make that many cool cars in high volumes, and a small pickup seems like a bad idea anyway. But between 1979 and 1995, the Caddy ...

It also has the base four-on-the-floor manual transmission. The diesel version got a standard five-speed, which cost an extra 205 bucks in the gas-burner, or about $648 in 2022 bucks. No automatic ...

1979 was a rough year for Americans with big, thirsty vehicles, and Volkswagen of America had just the thing for those drivers who wanted a small truck that sipped gas through a cocktail straw: the ...

“Big engine in a small car” is a phrase that instantly grabs our attention, like moths to a flame, or maybe fire ants to a sugar-coated Dorito. “Big engine in the middle of a small pickup” makes us ...

Caddy California comes in standard and even higher margin Maxi (extended) forms Forty years ago, Volkswagen launched the Caddy as a small pick-up. Now, it’s unrecognisable, having become a line of ...

From 1980 to 1983, Volkswagen built the Rabbit Pickup, also called the Caddy. It was technically a ute, since it had a unibody rather than a separate bed-on-frame—but who cares? It was cool, and even ...

The Volkswagen Caddy wasn't much of a cargo king, with US engine choices limited to a 1.7-liter gasser or a 1.6-liter diesel, neither of which crested 100 hp. It was an economy mini-truck based on Mk1 ...