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Er, yes. That rear end is definitely not to my taste. The front isn't as awful, but it looks like a cartoon, somehow. Not an improvement on standard, IMHO.

There's a few that I can think of http://www.no-rice.com - Guildford meets 2nd Weds every month. Just down the A3. http://www.e1k-acecafe.co.uk - last Tuesday every month. http://www.londub.com South Mimms service station (a bit random:)) I'm sure there must be CGTI stuff going on, but I've never taken an interest... ;)

Just seen this thread. That just blows. Big Time. I can understand wanting to move back to Cape Town. I did a couple of weeks work out there in '97 on the web sites for the Cape Star and the Argus and got offered a 12 month job while I was out there. Regretted not taking it up ever since.

You probably know better than me. I didn't catch a word with the driver :)

Quite a few Corrados there this month (and a lot of nice Sciroccos too :)) http://212.135.24.146/picturepost/nr/ A selection from the Corrado pix...

Aha. I think that's enough of a clue ;)

Hmmn... 1.8T Rocco? Who's that then, if you don't mind me asking? Won't be Craig or Lee's as they're already sorted for an intercooler AFAIK, and the only other Turbo Roc I know of is a 2.0.

...or go for half-leather with alcantara and get the best of both worlds?

aah but then you end up with a tyre full of that sticky cr*p which needs cleaning out before doing a proper repair. Personally I don't fancy doing 70+mph with a tyre I know has a hole in it.......... 70?! Spacesavers are usually only rated for 50 mph... I don't think you should be doing 70 in either case.

@ g-man: Doesn't ring any bells immediately. Have a scout around in the previous months as a I may have a shot without the plate in view and you'll know your vehicle much better than I will :)

BTW, well worth checking out NR's other resident photographer, Jelly http://www.oceansidevw.fpic.co.uk/ He's selling prints and needs the money more than I do... and he does have a wonderful eye for a picture - better than me, IMHO.

Sorry I didn't snap yours :oops: Full size... 3072 x 2048 (~6.3 Mpixels) Works out roughly A4 @ a silky 300 dpi. A3 should be quite usable, though I haven't tried it yet. Lots of debate on dpreview.com how big you can get a decent print out of a Canon 300D- really depends whether you're going to be looking at it with a loupe or not :) There's a chance some of them might be appearing in Golf + after a conversation with one of their staff writers last night :wink:

My monthly posting to this forum. There's a few Raddos in there, and a few more Roccos :) Now available here... http://cybertects-2.dsl1.easynet.co.uk/picturepost/nr/

Technically both... it's a Canon EOS 300D digital SLR :)

As promised to a couple of Raddo drivers last night, here are my pictures of the event. http://212.135.24.146/picturepost/nr/nr_20040512/ Cheerz Rob

FWIW, the standard fonts used by VAG since 1996 are slightly modified versions of Futura known as Volkswagen Headline and Volkswagen Copy. http://www.fontfabrik.com/fofawor4.html

What website? P.S. Bally: bringing your avatar with you? :lol:

Thanks for the positive comments :) :oops: Dunno about the lights in pic 31 - the owner interrupted me and said 'Hang on a minute while I switch on the neons' or summat like that.... My shots from the February meet is also online, with a few more C's in amongst them: http://cybertects-2.dsl1.easynet.co.uk/ ... 004-02-11/ The Scirocco pictured seventh and sixth from the end is my baby (and I know it needed a wash! )

Local girl insisted I take a picture of her... :roll:

Hi all An admirably large number of Corrados from this forum turned up at last night's No Rice meet in Guildford. My pictures of the event are posted at http://212.135.24.146/picturepost/nr/nr_2004-03-10/ Hope you enjoy them :)

Yes, that's me from No Rice - no Corrado, but I like to lurk here :)

Close, but no cigar reply... :) Phatnoise make a hard disk cartridge based car player that supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audo Codec) which is a BSD/GPL Open Source project. http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digit ... /index.php Kenwood licensed their technology for their Music Keg, which also supports it. http://www.kenwoodusa.com/product/produ ... uctId=2373 While, the encoder is reputedly faster and better than FLAC, I suspect you're not going to see Monkey Audio support in a car player by a major manufacturer real soon now - the project is maintained and written by a single author and the license terms are somewhat restrictive in comparison. FLAC's BSD license is going to be much more attractive to hardware developers. That said, while I understand that archiving to a lossless format makes sense for audiophile use at home, where background noise can be much more easily controlled, how much difference are you really going to notice between an original or lossless compressed track and a high bitrate MP3, for example, while driving around in your car?

I wouldn't say it's (limited to) a broadcast format. It covers a much wider range of applications than purely broadcast. Without getting too technical, MPEG-4 is an ISO standard for the storage and distribution of audio and visual data, that covers broadcast (e.g. digital TV), interactive network (video streaming and conferencing over the internet to you and me) and mass storage (e.g. playback from CD, DVD and hard drives). There's some other stuff, like speech-synthesis, wrapped up in the standard(s) that would allow some innovative uses of multimedia in the real world. If you're comparing it with Digital Beta or DAT as 'broadcast formats' versus VHS for 'home use', then it's a bit of a false analogy. MPEG-4 covers all the bases. If the iPod isn't a home user product, I don't know what is. :) Panasonic, Philips and other manufacturers have also released a number of handheld devices that play AAC alongside mp3/WMA. BTW, it seems that Panasonic do make an in car unit that supports AAC playback (but only via an SD card). http://www.panasonic.co.uk/car-sd-md-tu ... /index.htm

Ummm... just to set the record straight. some people think that AAC stands for Apple Audio Codec. Wrong! :) AAC = Advanced Audio Codec Originally developed by Dolby Laboratories, it's part of the MPEG4 standard, not a proprietary Apple format. http://www.dolby.com/DolbyAAC/FAQ/ http://www.vialicensing.com/products/mp ... ndard.html AAC is supposed to encode smaller/better sounding files than MP3. In my experience that's true. This is largely down to it using a better psycoacoustic model (allowing it to cut out more data that's not going to be heard) than the designers of MP3 employed. As it happens, it's used by Apple for delivery of downloadable music from the iTunes Music Store and it's playable on their iPod. One of the reasons they use it is because, like WMA, but unlike MP3, it does incorporate some Digital Rights Management (i.e. copy protection) capability. Like all of the above, it's subject to licensing costs by manucacturers who want to use it in their devices. If you're burning discs for use from iTunes, you can still burn MP3 discs for use in any device that supports them, such as a car player, regardless of which format you ripped them from CD. The only restriction that you might encounter is that if you downloaded songs from the iTunes Music Store (which is only available in the US at the moment) you won't be able to burn them to an MP3 disc. If you're after a truly Open format, then you need a player that supports Ogg Vorbis.

You've got my sympathy in full. I went past the parking space at the back of my flat the other night and noticed that some tykes had nicked the VW centre caps off the 14" BBS wheels on my Scirocco GTII. GRRRR! :mad: