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Pretty safe, and very spacious for two - for an extra £1500 or so you can have whatever colour you like on the outside (including any graphics you like too) - my mate had a leopard skin one 8), complete with seat trims and fluffy dice and the ultimate accessory "Smart Arse" badge on the back :)

In the back of your Corrado?

Oh, you're not embarresed about it are you John ;)

The review I have is of a different car, which was supplied by Scotts, and (as I said) is an automatic. Am I right in thinking the one you have is the one Guy bought? I'll see if I can get a scan of the review which is from Jan 93.

I know what you mean about the Corrado with the quad-round lights and nothelle badge on the left of the grille - that looked VERY moody :) I believe THIS is what you're looking for Jim....

That could be true, a very dark blue... (Never been the best with colours!), bit of colourblindness here I'm afraid!

Funnily enough, I have an issue of Volkswagen Audi Car sitting here with a certain black C, reg K 25 EUC on the cover (with some gorgeous Nothelle Classics on ;) ) shouting... "Fastest ever! 215bhp Nothelle Corrado VR6" I didn't realise it was an auto though...

Shame you haven't got the wheels...

I've been going through my 12" collection recently and putting lots to digital for these, I'm using 24/96 recording using a Echo Darla24 sound card, this is for archive purposes and then I'm transposing these to APE format. Now there is a place where I really can't tell the difference betwix Vinyl and Digital...

Managed to do a total of 0 miles one year in the Rocco between MOTs (I suspect the fact that the speedo didn't work had something do with it though ;) ) - It doesn't fail the MOT though... o)

One thing I do do is listen to my APE and MP3 files in the house too....

Funny you should mention that .. http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3YLY http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=44FC Less than £50 for 250GB now ... And the samsung one was down to £46.xx earlier this week. I bought one ... :) Looking back over the last weeks mails from my suppliers, I realise I should've been talking about 320Gb for that price I just need a bigger case and a power supply that will supply them whilst remaining a silent as a mouse... (got 1.08tb storage on the master computer so far)

Yeah, unfortunately that doesn't give you any idea of the MASSIVENESS of the thing though does it :)

Yeah, I tried to take some pics of that too, but it was TOOO HUGE for the lens I was using :)

Went to Donnington on Sunday for the Renault World Series, and although I didn't manage to get "trackside" (don't ask, total cock-up on the Media Centre front) I did manage to get some pretty good pics, including the following... Fernando Alonso's R25 Championship winning car. Shake yer booty... Oooooooooops part 1 ......................part 2 .....................part 3 "Get out me bloody way...." Shake yer booty part 2... Usual place for the rest http://www.AutoPoster.co.uk

Certainly in the Mk2 Scirocco days it was priced, pretty much the same as the Golf equivelant... The Corrado was always a premium product though...

There is actually a 384kpbs MP3 format out there, (sometimes reffered to as MP3+), not very well supported, but a lot of players see the files as 320k files and drop the extra information. Jim, unfortunately I AM an audiophile when it comes to the sound in-car, so it really does matter. Steve, looks like I'm in the 0.1% then ... VBR (Variable Bit Rate) by definition cannot be 320kbps, as it automatically loses some of the bitrate on certain parts of the files, it is UP TO 320kbps. A "extra quality" VBR can therefore never sound as good as a CBR (Constant Bit Rate) VBR's are useful for saving on disc space, but in these days of 500Gb SATA Hard Disk drives, and even 250Gb for less than £79 (inc VAT) what's the point. I encode most things in APE format these days, but have to make a second CBR 320 MP3 (Lame Encoder for information) for the car :( APE format for those who don't know is actually called "Monkey Audio" and is similar to FLAC files, but is a bit better at compression (especially if you use EXTRA HIGH level of compression) though it takes slightly longer to encode. With APE files it also seems to be good at compressing MONO CDs better, which is kind of good.

I've got the Sony MEX-R5 which is a similar unit, but instead of 1Gb memory it is a DVD player, similar amount on money, and 4.7Gb of stuff into the bargain... The only issue I have with it is it doesn't like low quality MP3s (which are typically used for Audio books) Oh well, can't have everything. Now the one thing I AM looking for is a unit that will play either Monkey Audio or FLAC files so I can have LOSSLESS playback, for when 320kbps just isn't enough!...

"A Stradivarius is only wood and catgut." And not even the original strings....

Aeriel...?

Well, let me know if you get a response...

Many many thanks to Dave, who drove over 80 miles today only to discover that he has the new style connectors on his VAG-COM and I've got the old-style on the Corrado... SO: Anybody got a VAG-COM with old style twin connector, alternatively, anybody know if the seemingly really cheap ones off flea-bay actually work on a C?

Just off Jct 21a, or 23 if you come through Loughborough...

Cheers Dave, problem is there's no MOT on the car, so would you be able to pop over one evening or something (I'll pay petrol of course :) )

Anybody ...?