WHITBY FREE PRESS WEDNESDAY' OCTOBER 19. 1977 PAGE 3 Canado opproved test methods using standard transmission. Fuel consumption will vary depending on how . . .. . . .. .. . . . ... . . . . . .. . . .. ... ............ . ............ ..... .. ... . . . . . . . . . . ....... ...... .. . ... ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ......... . Thoisyear lnwst every car nnaker rounci . inll be tyi rnd youthfis ine. Look farmiliar? It's the Volkswagen Rabbit. But without even looking too closely, it could be one of any number of cars that have recently appeared on the market. Or are about to. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we're very flattered. However, it's not the outside line of the Rabbit that makes it so revolutionary, it's what goes on underneath the line. In the five intensive years of planning and innovation that it took to create the Rabbit, it was continually designed from the inside out. Not vice-verso, like many cars. Looks for looks' sake was never our intention, and that'swhere we drew the line. For instance, since our trans- verse engine was mounted sideways up front, it created a huge amount of room for people and luggage in back. (Far more room we might add, than any other car its size.) And since the engine took up less room, that engineering fact plus extensive wind tunnel tests determined the dramatic slope of the hood. The sleek hatchback rear end design and the sporty line of the Rabbit's front were no accidents either. Even though they were in part refined by hundreds of test collisions over several years. Function followed sofety. And form follows function. Ail along the line. You also get front-wheel drive. 72 kilometers per gallon (45 -mpg) on the highw'ay, 47 km/gai (29 mpg) in the city.* You con accelerate from 0 to 80 km/h in a scant 8.3 seconds. (No one has been able to match those specs either.) You get fuel injection, rock and pinion steer- ing, front disc brakes, steel belted radiais, inde- pendent 4-wheel suspension, and a whole list of advanced features that other car makers have not even caught on to yet, let alone caught up with. Drop in at your nearest VW dealer and test drive the aston- ishing Rabbit. Why settle for pale imitations when you can buy the original?. THE 1978 RABBITS ARE HERE. SEE THEM AT YOUR LOCAL VOLKSWAGEN DEALER. to There's no comparison.