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Love:

Looks

Handling

Seating position

Dashboard

VR6 engine

Exclusivity

 

Hate:

VW prices

Timing chains

VR6 oil filter housings

Orange indicators

The HUGE Wing mirrors

Headlight performance

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Loves:

Bonnet curve

Point & shoot handling

Active spoiler :wink:

Timeless styling

Build quality

 

Hates:

People who call it a scirroco :evil:

Stealers

Bently manual price

Early 16v grille

Headlights and ahem wipers

...can i put caravans here?!

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Love:

 

G60 'charger

VR6 with an induction kit

looks

my Recaro electric seats

 

Hate:

 

No 4WD

Gearbox

Tiny intercoolers

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Love:

Low slung coupe styling

Perfect driving position

Seats

VR6 smoothness and exhaust note

15 Gallon tank

Refinement

 

Hate:

Cheap and fragile facia components

VR6 engine electronics

Sunroof

Tail lights

Exposed scuttle

Door handles

Insurance

 

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Love

Seating position

Active spoiler

Build quality

alot more reliable than my last car :lol:

get alot of attn on the road since Top Gear feature :D

 

Hate

The lighting is crap!

wipers, what wipers :lol:

Door handles..

the fact they stopped building them :cry:

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I love the following

 

Looks,

Handling Driving position (that go kart feeling)

the G60's roar

and driving something different

the spoiler

 

Hate

fuel costs

parts prices

all the standard things that needed tweaking to make it as it should of been in the first place, like the headlights

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Hate:

 

No 4WD

Gearbox

 

Hehehe, can I point out I have a 6 speed close ratio VR6 syncro box with a peloquin torque biasing diff in it?---it makes me :D I also have all the syncro floorpan panels, brand new :D :D

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Loves:

 

Spoiler 8)

Body lines and stance :twisted:

V6 roar with induction kit 8)

Q-car factor/ not many around 8)

Speed :twisted:

 

Hates:

 

Sunroof :roll:

Running costs :(

Headlamps :roll:

Annoying problems that happen just when you've got the car running really sweet :mad: :?

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Loves:

 

Looks (with out having to tart it up first)

Driving position

Vague memories of driving it

Spoiler

Alloys

Future classic

 

Hates:

It never works

Air flow meter

Oil pump

Ignition

Wet carpets

Cr4p lights

Prices of parts

Blue lights in rear view mirror

 

 

I'm sure I've just been unlucky so far but my C's been off the road longer than I've had it on! I know that when it's sorted I'll be V happy it's just a shame that every time you think its all good it blatently isn't.... grrrrrrr! May edit this when I've got over how big the repair bills are :x

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Loved :

 

Looks

Performance

People asking me about the car! :)

Gadgets ("spoiler goes up, spoiler goes down", MFA, etc)

Good solid build quality considering the age of the car

Looking back at the car in carparks in admiration

Low driving position

Rareity

Driving back from Stealth Racing after my last CCGB rolling road day (early this year), listening to some thumping music, on quiet A roads, window down, making 'progress' feeling totally chuffed to own the car I always wanted.

 

Hated :

 

Fuel economy

How much everything cost to get fixed

Frequency of repairs

Forgetting you left the side lights on and coming back to a flat battery

Idiots trying to race you

The feeling of paranoia that someone was damaging it when it was out of sight.

Driving away from the Citroen dealership in my my new Saxo with my Corrado sat in their car park :(

 

*sigh*

 

I miss my Corrado, despite its foibles :(

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Love:

love the fact that nobody knows what the fook the car is!

love the remote spoiler

love the looks i get in it

love the look on my birds face when i boot it down the m55!

 

Hate:

having to park it miles away to stop granmars bashing the sh1te out me doors in public car parks

having to find reputable service garages for repairs

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Loves:

Timeless sportiness!

Driving position & cockpit feel

The fact its not common

Spoiler

Reliability (touch wood!) - better than my Ford

That the car is a talking point - nobody ever asks - how's your Punto running?

VR6 noise with a 57i kit

 

Hates:

Pricey foglamps

Wet carpets and steamy windows

Spoiler problems

People thinking a Corrado is only worth having if it's a VR6

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I also love the heaters as they are piping hot so I can smoke with the window open and not freeze to death!

 

yeah mate you are soo right there.... :lol: :lol:

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Loves

The style the shape of the car

the rear of the car best bit personally (nothing dodgy intended) but when you see them from the back they're so nice

the spoiler ha ha

the view out that back so different to the car i drive

the way someone called it an austin princess!?!??!?!

 

 

Hates

i dont' pick it up till this tuesday?!

your all making me nervous though with these hates!

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Loves

Handling and sheer GO of them... (even the 1.8 16V I had wasn't exactly slow!)

Seating position and cockpit layout

LOOKS, both of the car, and of passers by/ people being passed by... :wink: 8)

Ease of mechanical work... Anything is do-able by someone who knows how to use tools and RTFM/ RTF"C-F.net" ! :wink: :lol:

Spoiler (it has to get a mention doesn't it! :lol: )

 

Hates

The hassle trying to get some of the more obscure parts/trim

Lack of a Haynes manual! :roll:

Knowing more than some of the parts muppets who try and sell you the wrong parts while making out that it is the correct part that you ordered, even though it looks nothing like the old bit you have in your hand, and has a totally different part number on it... :evil:

(Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant there... I got messed about by S-K-F in stockport today about my oil pump, which is going to take ANOTHER week to arrive, and I am NOT happy about it 'cos I was going to finish my engine this weekend.... :roll: )

 

That's it for the hates... :p

 

Even though I've just spent a horrendous amount of money, time and effort on my G60, I'd do it all again without hesitation (with the exception of snapping the bolt in the first place! :roll: :lol: )

I had planned to do something similar, rebuild wise, later in 2004, so all my sheared bolt did was to move the project forwards slightly... 8)

 

Basically, I love my 'rado and wouldn't change her for the world (apart maybe, for a few more modifications! :roll: :lol: )

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Oh, go on then..

 

Loves

Handling (when it's working)

VR6 engine (when it's working)

aggressive, purposeful stance of the car (even when it's not working)

the exclusivity (well slightly)

"it's not a golf" Sorry, but I hate Golfs.

 

Hates

the fact that most of the time it's not working

and when it's working it's not doing so properly

and when it *is* working properly something else WILL go wrong

labour rates

price of parts

availability of parts

reliability of replacement parts (why the hell don't the door handles/headlight switches get re-designed?!)

why oh why is there not a "engine sick - consult VAG-COM" warning light on the dash? Then it wouldn't be possible to sell a car with a fooked MAF, and a fooked cam position sensor, and .. and .. and ..

 

I could go on.. but I won't, cos it's too damn early, and I hate being depressed before 9am, particularly at the weekend!

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Loves

looks

handling

driving position

dash layout

active spoiler

nugget yellow ( best colour by far :D ) but then again I'm biased :D

boost return mod whooooshhh tsstttttt ( never get tired of that :D )

Easy to work on the G60 ( basically a GTI with a supercharger)

scope for tuning

The looks I get driving it

 

Hates

people calling it a scirroco!!! AAARRRGGGGGHHHH

when it goes wrong ( quite often up until now :D )

Crankshaft bolt LOL know what I mean Henny :D

stealers prices

alarm going off at 3 am in the morning

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Loves

Driving past mirrored buildings

new dumping boost return modd

wide and low ass

handing

ppl looking at it whilst im driving it

lazy boy loungin driving pos

how other corrado owners on the road wave and flash

WHEN IT ALL WORKS PERFECTLY TOGETHER

 

Hates

How come 3 things go wrong at each time one after another

Nothing is a 10 min job on a corrado

Explaing to VW dealers what a corrado is----some of them havent even heard of it

Having to wait for even common parts, to be delivered, nothing is ever on shelf

Amount of kinks and dents i manage to get in car parks

How every stone on the motorway is motivated to hit my car

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Loves:

Looks

Power

Steering feel

Handling

Quality

 

Hates:

Headlight switch

Dim lights

Brakes

Grip

Economy!!!

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FurkiG60, DAMN RIGHT I DO!!! :lol:

 

Gonna crash one of these days looking at my reflection

 

but thaats a bit vain isnt it? :?

 

 

:lol::lol::lol:

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