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Other Corrados. And Mk1/Mk2 GTIs and Sciroccos, if (as they usually are) they're rubber-necking my car :) Never got a wave back from the fit girl who drives a '90 Mk2 GTI sadly. And she's been driving that for years - I remember seeing her when I still had my Mk1 - thought I might have gotten a wave back when I graduated to a Corrado but no. I wonder if she'd wave if I splashed out on an R32? ;)

When I can afford a "hobby" car (got to go for the "sensible" company car option at the moment :( ) there will be a Corrado VR6 in my garage. Oh yes. Spot on with the comment about the waves and smiles - when I sold my Mk1 GTI I thought I'd seen the last of that. Turned out it was pretty much the last I'd seen of Mk1s on the road (they've all but disappeared now :( ), but still get the same from the Corrado owners. Always a buzz :) Especially the first time my (then "new") g/f asked "why's that bloke waving at you?" :)

I don't get much stick off my mates. Well, apart from the odd "we were having a sweepstake on whose car would fall to bits first, yours or Dave's, haha!" - Dave drives a '93 VR6, we've both had them years (had mine 6.5 years, he's probably had his around 8 ) and neither of us has really wanted to "upgrade" because neither of us has yet found anything affordable that we lust after in the same way. Some people think anything over 6 years old is just waiting to be pushed into a scrapyard... :roll:

That's because children don't like it when someone's different - it's the playground mentality. Give it a few years, you'll earn the respect in retrospect. Retrospect Respect - I like that one :) You drive a modern classic - they drive tarted up shopping cars, it's as simple as that. Your car was designed from the outset for the driving experience, theirs was designed for fitting into supermarket spaces and a few bags of shopping in the boot.

I'm a fan of the Fiat Coupe turbo but when you get to that sort of age I have to agree with Andy, simply because I'd trust Japanese engineering a tad more than Italian ;) This is coming from the man who had his heart set on a Coupe 20V Turbo 2 years ago until he pissed all his savings up the wall...!

Doesn't the payout figure come from the underwriter rather than the broker? Although it's no excuse for poor service mind, they're supposed to look after you.... And, for the record, I'm with Flux as well...!

Jeez...nearly 20 years ago now, but it was a 1980 facelift Mk1 Golf 1500 GLS. Brilliant car - I can't believe it never let me down, considering the stick I gave it for 6 years :)

I suspect that even if it's real they'd have had to cut the car in half to get the body/bodies of the car occupants out, given how tightly that bike is wedged in. Don't think they'd be allowed to display it without a thorough cleaning!

Holy sh*t! Hope they wiped up the mess before they put it on display :(

2 week holiday to Norway...not the cheapest place on the planet, as I'm finding out...!

Had my G60 since '99, the only MoT it failed was when the ABS light wouldn't go out - I thought it wasn't really a big deal since the brakes still worked, the tester argued otherwise. 1 new sensor later and it was back in the game :) Stunningly reliable car :)

Yeah, but flat-bottomed girls they make the rockin' world go 'round :) Anyway...have come close to deciding on the Seat Leon Cupra. Not the 'R', just the regular Cupra. It's a bit of a compromise between what I want and what I need (for the company miles) but since they're largely financing it, it's a pretty good compromise. My mate's got one, felt about as quick as the G60. Less exciting, but better screwed-together and more 'solid'... Mebbe one day the (realistic) dream of a Corrado VR6 for the weekends will come true, but it's just not realist now :(

Ah. The perfect summary. Yes, it brought a smile to my face this morning. Cocky, smug, overpaid wanker gets grin comprehensively wiped from face. And let's not forget the almost even more amusing fact that it's unlikely he'll be getting any "action" from his girlfriend for a while...assuming she's still even seeing him :)

lol!

Anyone got a link to it? I haven't bought PVW for about 3 years!

Your wife has taste. And damn, being your wife, she's already taken... ;)

Pardon my French, but what a f***ing balls-up. I can't agree - I don't think the work has been well done. (edit - just read the rest of the thread and seen others don't agree either!!!) Look at the reflections on the rear quarter around the lights - look at the pinch in the panel where all the reflections converge by the lights. Bloody awful. That rear end looks like he's tried to emulate the back of a Laguna and failed. And the front end - those lights do NOT suit a Corrado. No! Wrong!

Mk1 & Mk2? How about "original" and "facelift"? ;)

It's for the US-spec air-con ;)

Cue stream of purists trudging up to Hayward Castle, flaming torches in hands demanding the soul of the heathen ;) Horses for courses...having owned a couple of Mk1s and a Mk2 and done a fair few miles in mates' Mk2s I still don't feel you can beat the feel of the Mk1. I guess it depends on the mileage you do - I used to do a lot of miles across the Cotswolds and back every weekend, and the Mk1 was just absolutely perfect for the job; the same journey in the Corrado soon after I bought it was actually a crushing disappointment. Same (to a lesser extent) with the Mk2. Neither came close to the sheer fun of chucking the Mk1 around those roads. Couldn't agree more. If VW had made a Mk2 Corrado that had evolved in the same way the Mk2 GTI had evolved from the Mk1, although it would inevitably be softer it would be the car I would be buying now. Even if the finance was a little bit painful :) Selling my own Corrado is a very reluctant move - I just can't afford to run 2 cars with my mortgage. I need something newer to pile on the business miles and the saddest thing is that there is NOTHING I lust after now that I lusted after same way as the Corrado when I finally got my hands on one :( And to veeDuB_Rado - I was pretty much your age (I was 19) when I saw my first Corrado. South of France, on holiday with some mates, saw a German-registered black Corrado parked by the side of the road. The three of us were all over it like a rash.

That would be a bonus actually :) It's the legs - maybe too long, I dunno. I have to sit with them slightly akimbo around the steering wheel and the wheel rubs on the insides of my legs just about the knee. I'm sure, in a pair of shorts, the constant rubbing of the leather rim would be a real love/hate thing... ;) And no, I don't have fat legs!

Does the low steering wheel annoy you though?

I'd like to see them on a black car to see how bad they'd actually look. They'd be f***ing awful on almost any other colour of course. But they might just work on black. You never know... [/eternal_optimism]

Yep, that's the way it should be...but my local stealers are clearly a bunch of piss-takers!

I don't know if the new owner is on here, but I think I saw Jim's old G60 buzzing round by the Sainsbury's just outside Leamington Spa about half an hour ago...