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jmowreader

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62. Yes. The one I have now.

Sun May 15, 2022, 10:03 PM

May 2022

"Tiguan" is, for reasons no one can explain, what they got when they combined the German words for "tiger" and "iguana."

This goes to show that Volkswagen encourages the use of LSD by its staff, since you would HAVE to be higher than a kite to come up with that.

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