Classic TV: Buying a Volkswagen from an Old Lady

While our team has produced a number of guides on how to make sure the used or classic car you're buying is a good 'un, sometimes, there can be more to the story than initially meets the eye.

At least, that's what one of Volkswagen's best-known humorous commercials would suggest. Rolled out in the Netherlands in 2010, the commercial unsurprisingly gained popularity online given its perhaps far-fetched premise.

Titled 'Buying a Volkswagen from an Old Lady', it shows a man and his teenage son looking to buy the latter his first car, a Mk3 Golf. As soon as the seller answers the front door and they see that it is an old lady, the father gives a gleeful double thumbs-up before they inspect the car.

While everything checks out at first glance, the seller's rowdy flashbacks paint a different story. See for yourself below:

Translated from the original Dutch, the tagline makes the intended point clear: "Not every old lady is trustworthy – luckily every Golf is."

With how successful this commercial was, Volkswagen delivered a sequel in 2022 titled 'Bring Back the Energy'.

Showing the aftermath and seeming regret of the sale of her much-adored Mk3 Golf, a test drive of the new ID.4 GTX clearly conjured up many of those same memories.