That Rado...........
WELL..im back new motor and new project....
this one is a keeper i have always liked vw's and i really cant be arsed to buy / sell any more cars.... so this one is here to stay, i do have some long term projects in mind for it , it wont be totally mint like concours but it will be tidy daily driver standard, not sure if it will be good enough to show but il like it all the same....
as with any project i undertake time and money hold them up so i will update this as much as i can along the way....
i have gone for a
volkswagen corrado vr6
colour is blackberry
2.9 12v v6
AUTO!!!!!! (ahem this will change in the future..)
it is quite special really as it has electric heated leather recaro's from new...optional extra im lead to believe at the time i have also heard storys of insurance claims writing the cars off due to them being £4000 each to replace!! lol
it has the same spec as the storm model but it is a nicer colour and has the nicer interior... so in my opinion a better and nicer buy than a storm...
its just coverd 107,000 miles and has full anally retentive service history with a box binder abosolutly bursting with recipts etc etc
the body is quite tidy for the year and mileage and the interior again is tidy , i would like to spend some time on this later in the project getting it how i like it...
il post some pics up later on so you can see what its like cheers
nate
anyways here are a few pics of the sale adverts...
so that was the sale pics not great but you get the idea.....
i guess at this point i could tell you the difference between my car and the storm.
as i believe it the storm was a limited edition run of 500 cars, 250 were blue and 250 were green...
the blue storm had black leather while the green had beige leather
both cars were heated leather seats and that is the main difference... the only other spec difference is the strom badge on the rear of the car and a storm badge on the centre console.....the vr6 badge on the fornt and rear were chrome.
that is the complete difference between the corrados standard models and the storm...so it is possible to get a better specced corrado than a storm!! weird huh?
anyway.....
i like the way the standard car looks it has unusual lines and i think it is quite definitive in its age, there arnt too many around now and you really dont see them very often on the road, it is said that the corrado never really took off and was a vw flop but many many people disagree it handles superbly and the quality of the doors shutting and bonnet the interior really is very good, esp for a car of this age, the dissapointing factor of these cars is the performance... ok they are old they are fairly quick nothing like most cars of todays standards, they have a 2.9 12v v6 engine you would expect more horse power.... these only push out 190 bhp?????
crap really, they should of had a (schrick) vsr inlet manifold from the factory but volkswagen moved to opt out of this due to manufacturing costs so they sold the rights to schrick hence the name... this is basically variable valve timing for the vw!! similar to hondas version... this improves horse power and torque across the rev range and makes a very nice difference
on all models air con and headlight washers were optional....
i bought these wheels before i picked the car up and i still think they are old but kinda cool looking.... retro cool....
these are also supposed to be quite rare as they are 5 stud fitment for vw.
Borbet A's
fronts are 16 x 7.5
rears are 16 x 9
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