Tuesday 2nd September 2003

VW Concept R

Volkswagen join the roadster set

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[steff]

'meanwhile the hardness of the springs in the seats can be adjusted according to whether a harder or softer ride is desired. '

Err you what?

So set the seat springs to hard and understeer straight off the road...

[EdT]

I'll take ten.
Looks pretty sweet

Regards
Ed

[gemini]

looks nice - speed is swift too

[m-five]

Looks like a StreetKa

[t1grm]

Agree with Steff here. Or the other way to look at it is by stiffening the springs in the seats the occupants can get the impression of a faster more exhilarating ride without making any changes to the set up of the car or actually driving it any harder. Shows it up for what it is really. Another hairdressers wagon.

[planetdave]

Oh come on. A bit of tweaking would make it a good shopper though some of the features are a bit toylike. Get it stripped for action and it may well be a goody.

[wild]

If they really are going that gizmo happy, I suspect they won't make the chairman's claim of 1500lbs or whatever it was.

If that car is

[anonymous-user]

Looks like the front of the K1 Attack, mated to a Boxter rear end, and then the TT boys provide the makeup.

[billb]

nice rear not so sure about the front looks a bit vauxhall / gm peoplecarthinghy - it looked better in the first autocar sketch of it about a month ago - vw chairmans daughter has an elise which inspired it apparently!