sissymaidlola
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Ha, ha, ha ... this is all an us versus them thing, Lam. 
You say too-may-toe, they say too-mah-toe,
You say pot-tay-toe, they say pot-tah-toe,
You say VW Fox, they say VW Polo.
Too-may-toe, too-mah-toe, pot-tay-toe, pot-tah-toe,
... gee-dubya-bozo, vee-dubya-polo ...
Let's call the whole thing off!
For years the VW Polo in the U.K. was the benchmark by which all other small hatchbacks were gauged, while in the U.S. the VW Fox was the hatchback against which all other benchmarks were gouged. The most notable achievement of the Fox Polo was that it was the first hatchback in the U.S. to come with a heated rear windscreen ... this was a typically clever and innovative piece of German auto engineering that enabled proud American VW Fox owners to revel in the luxury of being able to keep their hands warm while pushing their new lemons in winter!
Of course, like all Volkswagens, the EU VW Polo cost a mint and it's performance really sucked, while in America, many proud owners of the VW Fox liked to twirl their tongues around inside them in order to satiate their oral fixation. Although this peculiarly disgusting habit makes for a really icky slimy stick-shift, on the positive side, it does help considerably to de-mist the windscreen on cold winter days ... but only so long as one doesn't use too much choke! 
Some confused candy-impaired cretinous Canadians couldn't tell the difference between a VW Fox glacier mint and a VW Polo mint ... but then again, most North Americans also couldn't tell the difference between a VW Golf and a VW Rabbit! Other confused and befuddled North American owners threw or drove their Fox Polos into lakes and reservoirs thinking they were Lifesavers. Wasn't it a VW Fox Polo that Ted Kennedy was driving at Chappaquiddick? NO? Well, it should have been ... Because then the colloquial term for carelessly rolling your car so that it lands upside down on the bottom of a lake would have been a Polo Rollo ... or a Marco Polo Rollo if it was a particularly large body of water! 
Conscious of its cheesy and minty reputation on both sides of the pond, and scared of a potential lawsuit from Ralph Lauren, in the mid eighties Volkswagen decided to realign the public image of its Fox Polo brand of automobiles away from candies and sweeties (which sucked) and over to a mushy cookie comestible called a Fig Newton (which blew chunks instead)! The new abstruse Volkswagen advertising campaign for the Fox Polo asked the proud owners of these hatchbacks how far they had driven their Fig Newtons today. Hence the German term for two nerdy guys enjoying a drive around town together in a Polo quickly became recognized the world over as "farfignewton" ... while the comparable German term for three ditzy blondes exploring the "joy of oral fixation satiation" while out on a sunny Sunday afternoon drive was "farfromfinkin"! 
Interestingly enough, the new advertising campaign planned by Volkswagen for its next generation of methane and natural gas powered environmentally conscious Polos will replace the now somewhat jaded "farfignewton" branding with the more closely focused idiomatic term "fartenpooten"!
You say eether and they say eyether,
You say neether and they say nyther;
Eether, eyether, neether, nyther,
Let's call the whole thing off!
You say laughter and they say lawfter,
You say after and they say awfter;
Laughter, lawfter, after, awfter,
Let's call the whole thing off!
The Yanks say Karmann Ghia, the Brits say common gear,
The Yanks say Beetle and the Krauts say Der Käfer,
The Yanks say convertible and the Euros say cabriolet;
So let's call the whole thing off!
The Yanks say Fox and the Brazilians say Gol or Lupo,
The Brazilians say Voyage and the Argies say Gacel,
The Brazilians say Amazon while the Argies return to Senda,
They both say Parati while the Yanks say Fox Wagon;
So let's call the whole thing off!
The Euros say Scirocco and the Yanks say Corrado,
The Euros say Golf and the Yanks say Rabbit,
The Euros say Bora and the Yanks say Jetta,
The Euros say Passat and the Yanks say Dasher,
The Euros say Passat and the Yanks say Quantum,
The Euros say Passat and the Mexicans say Corsar,
The Euros say Passat and the Euros also say Santana,
So now let's definitely call the whole friggin' thing off!
Screw Audi/Volkswagen, Polos are a rip-off ... buy a Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Bentley or a Rolls-Royce branded automobile instead!
Oh, sheesh, wait a minute ........ 
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