Now: New VW design philosophy, Was: From Vw to kia?!? WTF

[raveracer77 at yahoo.ca (Rave Racer 77)]

    While I will agree with you that the new shape is "cookie cutter" 
similar to everything Japanese for the last 15 years, history has shown that 
exclusivity makes life hard and especially here in New Mexico.  I've found 
that VW had a great following for the A1's and to a lesser extent the A2's, 
but almost nothing for A3's locally.  A slight resurgance for the A4, but 
now a huge new boost for the A5's.  By making the outer skin familiar as 
sickening as it is for us independant types, it is good for the company, 
good for business, and good for future VW's.  The good news is that they're 
still VW underneath the "ho-hum" skin.  Though I hate the look simply 
because it's a 1999 Toyota Corolla revisited, I embrace the outward normalcy 
that brings in the ignorant masses and invigorates a company that normally 
designs a fine line between independant thinking and overall appeal.  This 
is just a short stage for the Mk 5 on the A5 chassis toward some renewed 
design philosophy of the future when the Mk6 is destined to be released on 
the A5 chassis in just a year or two.
    In case you haven't heard, the Mk5 is expensive to make so they're 
pushing up the release of the Mk6 on the A5 chassis.  Ok, so I couldn't find 
the article to reference, but holy monkey did this guys contest get alot of 
attention:

http://carspyshots.net/zerothread?cmd=print&id=19027

I'd tell you which one I like best but I can't seem to figure out who did 
what.  Each of the posts doesn't correspond with the list at the bottom.

On a side note, the new 'Rocco renderings look most like a Scirocco Mk2, but 
I still prefer the red one of the 2 old renderings on Autobild even if it 
did look more like an updated Corrado.
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/news/fotoshows/vw_scirocco.113136.htm

http://www.autobild.de/projektor/galerie.php?pos=1&artikel_id=10265

       Rave Racer
'81 Scirocco Mk1 1.8L Digifant 2
'89 Jetta 1.8L 16V GTX  gone but not forgotten
'87 Audi 4000 Quattro
 http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
'72 Triumph GT6
 http://www.triumphowners.com/uploaded/34/50-50-111014_20raveracer-gt6-1.jpg
'83 Toyota Tercel (yoda)    Why? It was FREE!

 http://spaces.msn.com/raveracer77/photos/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Spinney" <vw_85roccoZ400@hotmail.com>
To: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com>; "Scirocco List" 
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 07:13
Subject: Re: From Vw to kia?!? WTF


> WTF Kia gets the guy that produced all the nice VW's and Audi's and 
> Volkswagen goes out and gets the guy from Honda hahaha.
>
> Say what you will I am still not impressed with Volkswagen's recent 
> designs and will probably never be.  Growing up on A1, I feel Volkswagen 
> is wrecking the images of the past with the redesigning of old named cars.
>
> Thanks for letting me voice my opinion I am sure I will get flamed but I'm 
> ready for it.
> -Brian
>
> 85 Scirocco 8vT       01 Jetta 20vT       84 Rabbit GTI
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com>
> To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:59 AM
> Subject: From Vw to kia?!? WTF
>
>
>> In a very scirocco'ish "Life imitating Cincy" twist please read below.
>>
>> http://www.auto-asia.com/viewcontent.asp?pk=10516
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> 80 Scirocco Callaway Indiana Red
>> 85 Scirocco 16v (conversion) Burgundy
>> 87 Scirocco 16v Tornado Red
>> 04 R32 Reflex Silver
>>
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