# @kirstenalana on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BuY2Ro2hnsI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2429660-kirstenalana-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/7e062e8954.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-02-27T14:16:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kirsten Alana (@KirstenAlana) — https://gondola.cc/KirstenAlana

## Caption

My Francophile heart was so happy to be in French-speaking Québec last week, being hosted by Volkswagen, to test 4Motion on the Golf, Atlas and Tiguan vehicles. Bonfires, ice cocktails, snow banks taller than me and maple syrup on a stick contributed to the feeling that I was experiencing winter as a child all over again. It was so much like February growing up in Vermont when my mum drove a VW bug. That burnt orange convertible wouldn’t hold a candle to the tech in the vehicles we drove on frozen lakes and snow roads now but it sure was a sweet little car. As we drove these new VWs, I was amazed at how far safety has evolved in automobiles in my few decades on this planet. Even for those of us experienced in purposely putting a car through its paces and hitting that very edge of control (thank you @verenamei for that training!), there was never even a hint of our safety being in question because of today’s @VW engineering. It was both so much fun and also hilariously frustrating in a good way. And I’m choosing to share the experience because I believe in the future of VW. They have some seriously lofty goals to ramp up production and distribution of electric cars and I’m so on board for that. As someone who loves to drive, but also loves the planet, I’ll be first in line to own a car that’s as fun as these were to drive but also environmentally responsible.
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Thanks for reuniting me with @hejdoll plus allowing me to meet @jeanatravels, @waleedsokkar, @sidneyhoffmann & more, VW. And thanks for the mega comfy ride to/from Montreal in the yet to go on sale Arteon - it’s a mega fancy whip that had me wishing I was in the market to buy the day it’s released.
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Video footage courtesy of and copyright @volkswagen / VWusa
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#vwlove #vw4motion #volkswagen #testdriver #vwdaily #agirlsguidetocars #quebecoriginal #hotelsacacomie

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volkswagen, vw4motion, quebecoriginal, testdriver, hotelsacacomie, vwdaily, agirlsguidetocars, vwlove

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