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The New Polo GTI

Subject: The New Polo GTI
From: blake at clockworm.com (Blake Irvin)
Date: Thu Oct 20 16:17:39 2005
In-reply-to: <20051020210918.7493.qmail@web51609.mail.yahoo.com>
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that's why i also have a vespa.

blake/



On Oct 20, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Lars Bruchmann wrote:

> i lived in italy for almost 4 years from late 97 to
> early 01, i never had the chance to drive in
> sardinia.. i applaud you.  but i agree with everything
> you say.  i had an A2 gti 16v and drove on 2-lane
> roads people here would call a sidewalk.  the gti
> suspension came in handy whilst driving up the alps or
> the foothills behind my house.  i could go up faster
> than anyone else, except the BMWs and those with ESP
> to keep them from spinning off the roads and down the
> mountain.
> i drove in the inner city of hamburg, germany,
> cobble-stoned roads laid down in 1300, i think.  wide
> enough for a horse and cart to get through, with
> buildings on each side.  an explorer would lose both
> mirrors if it tried to shoe-horn itself in there!!
>
> --- "Bennett, Christopher P ET1 MARMC 1230B"
> <chris.p.bennett@navy.mil> wrote:
>
>
>> I lived in Italy for two years (came back in 2004)
>> and I loved it there.  A small road with room for
>> 1.5 american SUV's is a 5 lane superhighway and a
>> back alleyway... right away belongs to whoever has
>> the faster car/larger set of balls.  In Gaeta I
>> rented a Mk4 Golf 1.6 16v and it was a beast.  220
>> klicks an hour, dodging APE's (pronouced OPPIE) in
>> the slower lane and Mercedes doing MUCH more than
>> 220 in the fast lane... good fun.  The best though
>> is the two lane mountain roads in Sardinia.  You
>> have to be a little crazy or very close to God to
>> haul ass through there... actually a little of both
>> helps.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>>
>>
> scirocco-l-bounces+chris.p.bennett=navy.mil@scirocco.org
>
>>
>>
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+chris.p.bennett=navy.mil@scirocco.org]On
>
>> Behalf Of Mark Hausler
>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:12
>> To: Peel; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> Subject: Re: The New Polo GTI
>>
>>
>> I was was in Italy for 9 days a couple of weeks ago
>> and it is such a different car experience. Our
>> rental
>> was a 4 door Smart car (the one that TopGear slept
>> in
>> for 24 hours). The VW's there were cool. THe MKV
>> Golf
>> is real nice in person and the Polo and the Lupo
>> (smaller than a Polo) are way cool. I would buy a
>> new
>> Polo in heartbeat. Small, light, very good looking.
>> I
>> even saw a new Fox- but that might be the
>> replacement
>> for the Lupo.
>>
>> All the car there are small, space is tight in the
>> citys and even on the roads, not as many cars but
>> the
>> roads are narrow and the freeways are way narrow
>> compared to ours. You deffently have to know where
>> the
>> corners of you car is. Drive 90kph on a freeway with
>> a
>> tour bus 3 feet on your fight and the guard rail 3
>> feet on your left (and the guard rail is at eye
>> level)
>> in the rain. And that was in a MKIII Gti 16v  (yes
>> A3
>> 16v). Oh and it had different smaller bumpers. We
>> call
>> them euro bumpers, over there they jsut call them
>> bumpers.
>>
>> -mark
>>
>>
>> --- Peel <scirocco_gti@juno.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> LOL! The original accord was slightly larger than
>>>
>> a
>>
>>> Scirocco. The Fiesta was slightly smaller than the
>>> Rabbit.
>>>
>>> SUVs are an example of incredibly successful
>>> marketing - convincing a significant portion of
>>>
>> our
>>
>>> population that they "need" an SUV, which in
>>>
>> reality
>>
>>> most people don't need. ;-)
>>>
>>> It is probably not a cooincidence that U.S.
>>> automaker's largest profit margins (by far)come
>>>
>> from
>>
>>> the low-tech trucks and SUVs.
>>>
>>> ===========================================
>>> Mark
>>> 1987 Scirocco 16V (Flash!), 1982 Scirocco (FOR
>>> SALE), 1981 Scirocco S (Project X), 1987 Golf GT,
>>> 2003 Beetle (Heavy)
>>> www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm (about 8 years out of
>>> date)
>>> Contact me directly at Scirocco_GTX@yahoo.com
>>>
>>> and they would be correct, trucks and SUVs outsell
>>> everything else here in the US.  that is why small
>>> cars like the polo were never sold here.  ford
>>>
>> tried
>>
>>> with the polo-sized fiesta in the late 70s, but
>>> americans prefer accord/passat sized sedans, not
>>> polo-sized hatchbacks.
>>>
>>> --- Peel <scirocco_gti@juno.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> VWOA thinks we only want to drive tanks and
>>>>
>> SUVs.
>>
>>>>
>>>> ===========================================
>>>> Mark
>>>> 1987 Scirocco 16V (Flash!), 1982 Scirocco (FOR
>>>> SALE), 1981 Scirocco S (Project X), 1987 Golf
>>>>
>> GT,
>>
>>>> 2003 Beetle (Heavy)
>>>> www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm (about 8 years out of
>>>> date)
>>>> Contact me directly at Scirocco_GTX@yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> Damn VW for not importing these here.
>>>>
>>>> If gas price keeps on increasing, maybee we'll
>>>>
>> see
>>
>>>> theem in North America...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> <<http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/volkswagen_news/ 
> article_1562.shtml>
>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>> '83 Scirocco
>>>> '97 A4 Q
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> mark hausler
>> '81 scirocco s
>> '03 20AE GTI
>> '83 GTI (project car)
>>
>>
>>
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References:
- The New Polo GTI
  - From: pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)

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