Golf-Beetle-Back

I had wanted a bug for as long as I can remember and when I finally got it 3½ years ago, I was thrilled to bits.  It was funky, it was fun, it appealed to my sense of (aging) hippie-flowerchild-ness, and it was a convertible to boot!  I gave up a perfectly good Golf (my first, and probably only, brand-new car) to get the car of my dreams.

  

 Turns out that one woman's dream can be her dog's nightmare.  Taz doesn't like the Beetle.  It's a royal pain to get her into and out of it.  She has to be coaxed ever so patiently to crawl into the back where she sits on the floor so that the folded forward seat can't be put back into place.  From the floor she has to be patiently coaxed once again to get up on to the seat, and of course, we have to do the whole thing in reverse when we get to our destination.  I think we can all agree that patience is a virtue that I'm kinda low on, so outings to the dog park are way more stressful than they were when I drove a hatchback.  It goes without saying that they're less frequent too.  Our local park isn't as much fun, but it's a lot easier for both of us.

So, it's not that I don't love my Beetle anymore, I do, but I need a more practical vehicle for the neurotic dog.  That's why the Beetle is for sale and I'm once again the proud owner of a VW Golf.

Not just any old Golf though.   I wasn't the least bit interested in the black, blue or silver ones - I only wanted a yellow one!  And not that wimpy pastel-y yellow that they came out with for a few model years either.  It had to be BRIGHT yellow!  

So here she is in all her sunshiny glory:

It's not perfect, it doesn't have a sunroof  :(  but I don't really care.  I could've had a nice silver one (yawn) with a sunroof...nope, no thank you. 

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I don't actually have it yet.  I can't pick it up until Tuesday evening, but I'm excited, so I had to share.