More VW owners seeing the light

[davidwatsonok 0]

Gotta laugh. I often get a slating on here for deserting the VW fold and going all rice, but I'm not alone :lol: THIS THREAD on Scoobynet has a Golf VR6 owner ready to swap, a C VR6 owner who already has, and me, who swapped ages ago and have never looked back. I still have my C, but will be chopping it for an MX5 for the G/F fairly soon. Times change and at some point you just have to realise that you're living in the past. I've loved my C for over 12 years now, but we've grown apart.

[dinkus 10]

Well I guess there's no accounting for taste :lol:

[Henny 0]

Meh, been there, driven them, missed the soul of my VWs... :?

 

Glad you're happy with your rice burner though, it's horses for courses at the end of the day... 8)

[Walesy 0]

Yep, would be a boring old world if we all liked the same things :)

 

I'd imagine dribing a 'scooby' would be OK , but it's the gold wheels etc that I don't like , and the association with chavs.

 

I also think if you took all the body kit/alloys/etc off it would be a pretty boring looking jap saloon.

 

I've got mates that love jap cars , mainly Nissans ( although they don't slate VWs :roll: ) and they're all pretty quick.

[iow_corrado_g60 0]

i like them but wouldnt have one!

although wouldnt mind having a blast in an evo 8 fq400

and my mate has a celica gt4 and its very nice! and another mate has an older supra with 270bhp but they all like my car like i like there's there just not for me!

[24V Renshaw 0]

Times change and at some point you just have to realise that you're living in the past.

 

I thought that.... so I modernised it and bought it into the present day :)

 

Jay

[Dec 1]

Ooo ! I'm gonna cause some trouble on the Corrado forum with that quote

:roll: Children.... :-P

 

Corrado is a modern classic, Scooby is a modern fad.......no comparison!

[davidwatsonok 0]

The Chav assumption always tickles me. I had the misfortune to call by my local Burger King late one sunday evening and was greeted by an assortment of body-kitted tatt, none of which was a Scoob. Lots of Paxo's, 106/206's, Nova's, Escorts and a couple of Golfs. All with the regulation stick-on alloy fuel flap cover, Lexus style lights, oversized alloys that ruin the handling, excessively lowered and with huge, multiple exhausts booming away from their 1.0l engines. There are a couple of C's near me too, one with Viper stripes FFS, the other with an awful bodykit. This to me is Chav. It is too easy to simply label every owner of a specific marque as Chav, just because you've seen one car ruined by these braindead idiots.

 

As a regional event organiser for the West Yorkshire Impreza Owners Club, I am happy to say that the majority of our members are mid 20's to early 40's, most with families, aren't obsessed with designer labels (esp Burberry) and drive with respect to other road users. Our meets do not happen at retail parks and involve burnouts and donuts, rather country pubs and beer gardens with quality food and intelligent discourse. We don't race on the public highway, prefering to hire our own track twice a year (which you guys have been invited to many times but have never shown) or visit other organised events.

 

Personally, I have silver wheels. Although I have friends with gold ones, and even some with rally graphics. I do have the big wing, but what was I supposed to do, pay to have it removed. When I initially got the 'net at home and I was still driving the C daily I tried to get a meet organised on here, but nothing ever came of it. I have since seen many such ideas come from others, and fail. I have invited members from here along to our Scooby meets, as we welcome anyone who is a car enthusiast. We've had Evo's, Cossies, CTR's, Clio 182's, 200SX's etc. and even many more exotic marques such as a 360CS, Murcielago, Noble M12 GTO 3R and soon an Ariel Atom will be joining our club. As I said before, I have on several occasions invited you all along to our trackdays, with no takers. Some of the Club GTi people came a couple of times, including Jon Cass who managed to get us featured in Banzai magazine.

 

My negative stance on this BBS comes from experience, where lots of people are quick to slur, slander, humiliate and disapprove, and yet never really do anything constructive to create a good friendly and welcoming atmosphere. You view the C through rose tinted glasses I'm afraid. It was a great car, is still a lovely design for a hatchback masquerading as a coupe, and was brilliant to drive and a credit to the engineers who cobbled it together from the VW leftovers pile. But its day is gone. Those of you whom choose to care and restore them to preserve them for future generations to admire I respect, but I am not a museum curator. I am a driver, and as such I want the best driving machine I can afford from whatever is the best currently available, and for me, my wallet, and my driving ability that is the Scoob. It is fortunate for me that there are so many like-minded mature and decent people who share my passion and whom have become personal friends.

[StuartFZR400 0]

Gotta laugh. will be chopping it for an MX5 for the G/F fairly soon.

You're getting an MX5 in trade for the missus? Where? lol

 

but seriously - definately a girls car

 

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I do have the big wing, but what was I supposed to do, pay to have it removed.

but then it'd look like a Daewoo; a fast one that poops all over my C :oops:, but still a boring look

[Nick 0]

Is this a strange way of saying goodbye?

[scarlett 0]

Just cos you've traded in your Rado don't mean its right or the rest of us have any plans too.... :roll: and as for the VW drivers trading in their Vr's for Scoobs and other Rice tat, let them.. I know of 2 Jap and 1 Ford driver who are on the look out for a decent Corrado as they have got bored of their cars.... needs, wants, situations and people change....

 

good luck with your new car, I am sure the new owner of your Rado will appreciate the fact you gave it up and let them get their hands on one of the best older cars on the road....

 

It' be a boring world if we were all the same - god I sound like my mum...!

 

(can't wait to be able to drive my rado again, its been 5 days and I have serious withdrawal symptoms..... :( )

[gaz the geezer 0]

Is this a strange way of saying goodbye?

 

 

he`ll be back Shaggsy, ....... they always do :lol:

[chubbybrown 0]

I seem to remember some BBS wheels were gold too.

 

So far with this 16 year old car Im in it for the long run,

I appreaciate what you say though Dave,I do.

 

I was watching the scooby estate version on 5th gear and I did like it,

a shame as my wallet would never be able to cope with it.

I have a jap car for myself and the corrado is hers,neither of them have really been troublesome but I dont expect the mitsubishi to last the 16 years the corrado has,But I hope so :-)

 

Roy

[Taggart 0]

(can't wait to be able to drive my rado again, its been 5 days and I have serious withdrawal symptoms..... :( )

 

Imagine how I feel, it's been nearly 4 months now since I crashed :mad: I've been driving a Mondeo that cost me £50!

[davidwatsonok 0]

My C will indeed be up for sale before too long. I will post it on here, and I can vouch for it being in good condition as I have had to pay through the nose for all bl00dy bits that keep failing on it, constantly. Just this year it has had new clutch hydraulics, brake hoses and rear calipers. The wing has stopped working (currently trying to sort that) and the alarm went faulty (fixed for 32p by me instead of £220 by alarm installer). I did a major overhaul in 2002 when it got new everything on every corner (£900), and 6 months later it got a new engine, clutch and recon 'box (£2100) after the head gasket went and took half the head with it. I daren't begin to work out how much it has cost me in the last 12 years, but annually it must be IRO £1500-2000av.

 

In 2 years my Scoob has had an oxygen sensor in the exhaust, fixed free under warranty.

[Blinky16v 0]

Any good handling fast-ish to fast car suits me fine. I like my C but i'd have a Scooby no question, I'd also like a Lambo...

 

If someone wants to drive around in a car with loads of add-on tat and a pokey engine then thats fine by me, gives me amusement and some others envy. If someone wants to drive round in a rally car with suspension so hard their brain must be damaged after a long journey on our lovely English roads then again fine by me.

 

I don't see any point in commenting on other people choices when we're all so different..... although I must say the MX-5 is a girls car, which invalidates most of what i have said ;)

[davidwatsonok 0]

Chubby, the Subaru Forester STi would be my next car like a shot if I could stretch to £22k, which I in no way can, yet. 330bhp, 335ftlb, 0-60 4.8s and a total sleeper of a car. Superb. The S-Turbo's can be had for reasonable money and tuned quite well. 215bhp out of the box IIRC and easily 280-300 with some wise mods. An Impreza wagon would suit though if I can't have the STi Forester.

[Walesy 0]

Blinky16v, totaly agree. It's a strange thread , no-one seems to be slating Scoobs, i'd love to put one around a track :twisted: - I wouldn't buy one as the styles not to my taste ( and I couldn't afford one ! ) - but each to their own.

 

Sorry if that's not argumentative enough :wink: :lol:

[dinkus 10]

In 2 years my Scoob has had an oxygen sensor in the exhaust, fixed free under warranty.

 

...and depraciated in value by £4k ;) :lol:

 

I don't think anybody's denying that the Scoobs are good cars (although the interior quality is only marginally better than a 16yr old C), but it's just not our thing.

[H8RRA 0]

this is a pointless discussion - we can all point to those that have switched from one brand to another - corradovr5nos - james - had a vr - got a scooby and now has another vr cos he missed it so much as far as i understand. trippy has had many ricer's but hankers sfter another charged vr and i'm sure there's many more.

 

it works both ways

[davidwatsonok 0]

Blinky, the suspension doesn't need to be hard. Mine is fully adjustable and round town it's much, MUCH more complient and easy going than the C. When I want it to be, it is stiff and superbly controlled too.

 

I had a 4 hour drive in an MX5 last summer, and if you have never driven one then do, soon. I stopped off and overfilled the rear tyres and had a hoot drifting the back end all over the place. Fantastic chassis for a cab, with loads of feedback and beautiful control. When we get Helen's I can see us fighting for who drives on sunny days. that never happens with the C, and not often with the Scoob, as she is a little intimidated by its speed.

[GazzaG60 0]

come on lets face it the soob as a fast car is streets ahead of a corrado even though most dont seem to agree. for some reason id expect due to what we own and where we are.

 

however much i know its a better car at going fast i still wont swap. i know i can create a 400hp subaru for not a lot but hey.....

 

plenty of my old subaru mates are going vw too. its a nice easy and cheap platform to work on and mod compared with a subaru

[Blinky16v 0]

davidwatsonok, have a salad mate, I'm not suggesting your car has hard suspension, just a rally car...

 

Anyway we'll be here when you come back to the fold dude ;)

 

*edit* My MX-5 comment was an attempt at humour....

[davidwatsonok 0]

Walesy, next trackday is in September. I'll post an invite on here as usual. Bring your car and show you have reasonable ability and I may just let you have a go in mine.

[veeDuB_Rado 0]

Yup, I'd rather drive a car that not a lot of people know, rather than just drive "another" Subaru !