maadmaxxer

There is still something inside me saying buy a corrado ;) the fuel prices were crazy when i last looked, and now i no longer commute to coventry most weekends, so now i am looking for something a little less sensible :D i p/x'd the focus for a 1.9TDi passat and now that i am not doing the same sort of mileage as i was 8 months ago i am now back on the hunt for a corrado :D Lets see how it turns out :)

My second car which is usually used for the commute is a 1991 Jetta GTi, 1.8 8V. Compared to the Rado's 20mpg average it gets about 32mpg. Much more acceptable and I still get to drive a cool old skool Dub. :grin: i had one of those, was totally stock. Sold it 6 months ago. was gorgeous inside. I think had the back seat folded down i would still have it :lol:

cheers folks, had a look through the Wikipedia style database you guys have on here, the G60 seemed to have not too bad economy, is that accurate?? i was looking at this on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1992-VOLKSWAGEN-C ... .m14.l1318 not perfect but tempting. has anyone got an opinion on it?? or is the owner on here lol i think what it all comes down to, is whether i buy a camper this weekend at bug jam and it has a tow bar fitted, as my beetle needs towing due to a small person with a hammer making noise inside the engine. I would then have 3 cars i like beetle camper corrado as opposed to beetle beetle focus could be all change :D

you're not going to get great fuel economy out of any of them, only the 2L 8v will really better 32/33mpg in combined driving and only by a few mpg. either get one with a TDI conversion or expect to spend anything up to another 100 quid a month on petrol :pale: cheers, i must do at least £60 a week on petrol at the moment. then i reckon with increased parts and labour its gonna be more. damn those fuel prices

cheers for the responses guys... the main reason i do so many miles a week is that i live in colchester in essex and my girlfriend lives just outside coventry (don't ask lol) i didn't think that they would be the most efficient car in the world, i know a bloke well in essex that would be able to sort me out each time anything broke... i was just wondering out of all the options which would be the best on economy... is there an 8v and 16v 1.8 like mk2 golfs?? i think i remember saying with golfs that 16v are better for motorway driving than the 8v... :)

:wave: Hi, i have a '69 Bug at the moment, have had a '91 Golf 8v GTi, a '91 Jetta GTi and then went onto a 2000 New Beetle. Its safe to say i like my Dubs and i am looking at getting shot of my daily '03 focus as it just bores the life out of me. I LOVE the look of the corrado, i have admired them for at least a year and considered buying one before i bought my new beetle as i thought it would be cool to have two bugs, turns out the fuel economy was not the greatest and i did 5,500 miles in 9 weeks :cuckoo: so i did a deal involving my focus. So out of £55 worth of petrol i can get 450 miles out of a tank in that Focus. I would love to sell the Focus and buy a rado, but i am not sure which one i should be looking for, i have missed the performance of my mk2 but i also can't afford to be killing my bank account with shocking fuel economy. I am guarenteed to do about 400 miles a week most weeks. So my question is, should i actually buy one, would i be killing myself financially in fuel bills. Which one would i get the best fuel economy out of?? i would love a VR but i just know that i wouldn't be able to afford to keep filling it up. I did have a read of the first 4 pages (of 9) of the future of the corrado thread to see if there were some answers in there, so i apologise if this has been asked before :) Cheers in advance mmx