Merry Christmas! plus mag article

[clfitz@ns1.cwv.net]

Hello, everyone!

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas or whatever equivalent is 
applicable.  Plus, it's gonna get real merry for me tomorrow; I'm 
going down to pick up the '81 Scirocco that Todd helped me hook up 
with!!  Finally, after owning two of them for nearly a year, I'm 
actually gonna have one to *drive*!  It's gonna be great!

I've been kinda following the bitching about EC magazine that occurs 
about this time every month; although I tend to agree that mag isn't 
very wonderful, I guess I just don't bitch much.  Anyway, I though 
you all might enjoy, or at least be interested in, what *Car and 
Driver* had to say about the 1978 Scirocco in the March 1978 issue.  
The article was written by Michael Jordan, and I'm not gonna put the 
whole thing in here, just some quotes.  Here goes:

"In 1978, this VW continues to be a watershed of performance and 
style, a sporting idiom that captures present realities and 
transforms them into fun."

"The secret is the Scirocco's relentless emphasis on functionality.  
Of course, the source of this impulse is its status as a creased and 
folded VW Rabbit."

"In the Scirocco, the added element is a certain aggressive agility 
that tingles in the steering wheel, the gas pedal and even the unit 
body.  Much of the Scirocco's urge-to-go can be traced to its light 
weight.  Even 71 hp can reproduce the kinesthetics of a 200-hp street 
racer it it's located inside a package that weighs only 1835 pounds.  
Rack and pinion steering whips the short wheelbase Scirocco into 
corners like a racer.  And when you go for the brakes, the Scirocco 
screeches to a halt with the stability of a Porsche."

"Now the Scirocco is the accepted yardstick of speed.  If a car runs 
faster than a Scirocco, it's a genuine superhero.  If it runs slower, 
it's just mundance transportation regardless of the size of its price 
tag."

"Every car maker aims at the intersection of the function and style 
curves.  Most fail.  But the Scirocco nails the target dead center."

The article just goes on and on like that.  I think they liked it.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Carlee
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