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I'm actually warming to the 'pop-ups'. Go on, someone try them...

Well I hope it at least puts him off using the 'for sale' section because I wouldn't trust the swine. And it was less a witch hunt than a public shaming.

Interesting how he definitively lays to rest the idea that the Corrado was ever a 'follow up' to the Scirocco, and, more importantly, how he stopped the Corrado from having pop-up headlights(!). (And his own cars sound very... green.) Then again, pop-ups don't look too bad...

Thanks for that, but I'd really want to run it as standard (except maybe for the de-cat) rather than mod-up the output.

Thinking of moving from a 1.8 to a 2.0L. I know the spec says 2.0 is 1.5 secs slower on the 0-60, and that it's the same weight and same fuel consumption. But what's the reality of the 2.0 over the 1.8? Noticeably slower? Thirstier? I just don't know anyone who has a 2... (Oh, and this is good...

Okay, thanks for that (I didn't think that the 1.8s came with the cat but thanks for the confirm). Now, did the 1.8s have an ABS option?...

Seen a 1.8 advertised as having a catalytic converter. I didn't think that the 1.8, even the latter models, ever came fitted with a cat. Is that the case? (And saw this on a review page: 'Some parts prices will scare you, though. Try £790 for a full exhaust system the catalytic converter alone is over £425.')

Way too much, I think. Especially as there isn't too much information on service history, etc. And NO leather. I'm not sure that running it so low on those wheels would have been too good for the suspension either. There's still good ones out there that are not so overpriced. Not too long ago a fully restored 16v - and I mean FULL respray - went for about £1700; and I saw a silver 16v, one owner from new (!), 96k mileage, advertised for £1500. Particularly miffed about missing that silver one as it was nearish to me, but it had gone by the time I rang. Stick it out...

Readily available hash + car custom scene, does not always a good combination make. But then, without it, we wouldn't have cars like this.

I agree, I was wrong about the dragster. I didn't 'mind the gap'. If it was a road Corrado that had been made to look like that, then it would be crap; but as it's a dragster that's been made to look like a Corrado (or as near as it feasibly can), then it's pretty cool. (Still fond of the 'Dawn French arse-width pills' line, though...)

Eh?

... apparently... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-CORRADO-ZENDER ... dZViewItem >

Actually, I do now agree with Phil K, to a certain extent, about the dragster; it does have a kind of 'does what it says on the tin' coolness. So let's exempt the dragster.

More crapism for connoisseurs of crapology everywhere. There is something so brain-twangingly twisted about this that I think it goes all the way around the dark side of sanity, sits in a room flipping its bottom lip, and then comes out the other side and actually becomes a work of genius. Albeit by someone you clearly wouldn

Sorry, but I'm just obsessed at the moment with lovingly built but still crap Corrados. I've tried to add a few more by 'edit' to this thread but I keep getting a 'cannot recognise image dimensions' message, whatever that means. (Is there a time limit to edits, perhaps?). Anyway, I suppose I could always open a new thread. No, I won't do that...

I might be having a sarcasm-blindness moment here, but... isn't there a hideously orange six-wheeled thing two posts above you? (I could try and make it pink...

It would be interesting to know what the copper's definition of sarcasm is as the guy he's having the exchange with is at no point actually being sarcastic. I once broke down on the motorway at four in the morning, post-clubbing, and a passing and unsympathetic copper that stopped to survey the scene told me to 'shift it' (the car). I said that we'd clearly broken down and hadn't just pulled over for a dangerous roadside picnic. He said that I should shut up or he'd arrest me. I asked him what he'd arrest me for. He said: 'Being a tw@t.' I said: 'That obviously isn't against the law or you'd be doing life.' There was a pause when everyone - the guy, his colleague, everyone with me - seemed to hold their breath. I thought, what can charge me with - Grevious Bodily Backchat? Then he just told me to get it towed away sharpish or he'd do it for me and I'd be hit with the bill. We hitched a cramped lift off a passing (old) Mini...

Ha ha. That's about the only thing horrid missing from it: the fact that it isn't Lady Penelope pink.

Now that's better. Curiously, still orange... .

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: PMSL! Doesn't take much to get you pissing your pants does it? I think you've misread that. It's actually a cry for help: Pass Me Some Laxative. But he/she is right. It's all in the word order. The initial 'in the interests of fairness' suggests a reasonable reassessement, which is then immediately subverted with 'it's still crap'. But, having said all that... I think I may have been too harsh on the first Corrado considering that it is a race car. So, looking at it again I can see why it would need to look like that - the rear wing for high speed stability, the body kit for feeding air around the larger wheels needed for greater traction, the suspension lowered for keener cornering, and the baby blue paintwork to grab attention and promote sponsorship logos. Yeah. still crap, though

This looks slightly better (if the windows were detinted and the bean tin pipes were canned and the Lexus rears binned and the cheese grater mesh given the heave ho...). But there's no way my retarded photoshop 'skills' could get near any of the others. You're on your own...

John, in the interests of fairness I've looked again at the first one... and it's still crap. Especially for a hot rod; I mean, just think what you could do: Fifties style flames airbrushed down the wings. Baby blue just won't do. Still, it would probably burn up well.

More crapism for connoisseurs of crapology everywhere. There is something so brain-twangingly twisted about this that I think it goes all the way around the dark side of sanity, sits in a room flipping its bottom lip, and then comes out the other side and actually becomes a work of genius. Albeit by someone you clearly wouldn

I didn't actually ring GPC but just naively trusted the website. I'll ring tomorrow, thanks for that. Though I've just heard that Corrado indicators are now commanding such a price that they're being smuggled over from Europe in bags of heroin...

I've searched the site and can't find, so I'll just ask. Is there any other option for getting new indicator lenses than paying the scandalous £41.41 each from a VW stealership? That's the price I was quoted. GSF don't do 'em. Neither do Eurocarparts. I found an online VW parts seller that does just nearside for approx £30. Oddly, they say the offside is obsolete but not the nearside (?).