VW SP2

[Parabola]

Have just stumbled on images of this VW, I never knew existed. Now I really want one.

About 10,000 were built in Brazil, between 1972-1976. It had a rear mounted 1700cc air cooled engine.

Has anyone got/seen one in the UK?



















Images from here

[wormburner]

Lovely isn't it.

[Riley Blue]

There has been at least one in the UK, at a VW dealership in north London, I once road tested it for a VW magazine.

[Jw Vw]

That is stunning.

[darrenw]

There's one in the Sheffield area, a friend of mine who runs a VW Specialists there has done work on it in the past.

[Parabola]

Riley Blue said:

I once road tested it for a VW magazine.

More info please! Do you have a copy of the article you could post up?

[thinfourth2]

Oh i like that

[Strawman]

There was one for sale in Dublin earlier this year, with a RHD conversion, they wanted €18,000 for it and it sold reasonably quickly. I'd spend the money on a 911 personally, which surely inspired the back end of the SP2.

[Embryonic]

Wow, I've never seen one of those before. I love it!

[D1bram]

Like that a lot.

[Schuey M]

Never seen one before but love it.

[soad]

thinfourth2 said:

Oh i like that

Me too.

[Lund]

It's very Porsche esque!

[va1o]

I hadn't heard of it but looks great!

[soad]

Lund said:

It's very Porsche esque!

Yes, the rear reminds me of one too.

[Codswallop]

Never knew about these, but it looks great inside and out.

[Riley Blue]

Parabola said:

Riley Blue said:

I once road tested it for a VW magazine.

More info please! Do you have a copy of the article you could post up?

Afraid not, it was over twenty years ago. It was most likely in Volkswagen/Audi Car.

[SlimRick]

Still a few about over there:

http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/vw-sp2

£11k for this:
http://carro.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-240910349-sp2...

Want!!!

[DRVR]

It's a nice looking car, till your turn the engine on and listen to it. To me the VW air-cooled puts me off as a sports car engine. But if you're into VWs it's a very exotic car outside of Brazil. Not fast at all though. Top speed was 95 mph when new and 0-62mph was 17.4 sec. There was a prototype by a local tuning company that had the engine swapped by a 1.5L VW water-cooled motor similar to that of a golf, and this reached around 115mph in tests. But it never went into production because VW stopped producing the car. One of the reasons for low sales was that the car's performance couldn't keep up with it's looks.

[tbc]

if you squint

it looks like a cross between a Mustang and a Fiat Dino