RE: Scirocco Classification

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

I think you're on the right track. If they would consider a Golf GTI a
non-sports-car then you should be able to argue that it's almost exactly the
same platform. If a GTI is a sports car, you're out of luck.

Funny thing is that SCCA is about as close to any European type of racing
you can get, and *everything* could potentially be a sports car (heck, my
old Ford Fiesta is the cousin of a rally champ!), so what /would/ they
define as a "sportscar"??? What began as a lowly grocery-gettin' Subaru
Imprezia is now whuppin' the pants off of Porsches. Sounds rather vague to
me...

My vote? Buy the Scirocco anyway! They're great!
...Had to get my plug in ;-)...

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 5:38 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Scirocco Classification
>
>
> Well, here I was, all set to buy a rocco and race it in the
> ST class (SCCA
> Autocross), and now they've just updated the ST rules... This
> year they've
> added to the "four seats, four seatbelts, normally aspirated
> engine no larger
> than 3.1L"  the line "not sports-car based". Dammit. Does
> this rule out a
> Scirocco? I know it would my other choice, an RX7 (2+2). Is
> the Scirocco
> sports-car based? I mean, I know we're all inclined to say YES without
> considering it, I know the rocco my mom previously owned was
> certainly a
> sports car... but being based on the same platform as the
> rabbit, would this
> still be true?
>
> TIA,
> Benjamin
> New London, CT
> 93 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor 164k miles
> 85 Saab 900 Turbo 224k miles (the AutoXer)
> 84 Volvo GLT Turbo Wagon 189k miles (4 sale)
> 78 AMC Gremlin 76k miles (don't ask)
> Impending VW Scirocco 16v purchase :-)
>
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