Wednesday 1st May 2002
Corrado
VW is working on a modern interpretation of the Corrado. The concept car is expected to appear next year.
Discussion
quote:I hope its better than the previous two concepts for a new "Corrado". The first was a Bora coupe, and the 2nd was an Audi TT that had been beaten with the ugly stick.
Good news - Finally the end of wimpy golfs being VW's fastest marque. Hope they give it a nice V6 again.
God knows what this one will be like.
Halleluya!
I remember after the sad demise of the original Corrado back -- what, 1996? -- there were mock-ups of a replacement and talk that there would be a new one by 1999 but nothing happened.
If it's anything like my old Corrado (what are the odds?), this could be my next 'sensible' car...
I remember after the sad demise of the original Corrado back -- what, 1996? -- there were mock-ups of a replacement and talk that there would be a new one by 1999 but nothing happened.
If it's anything like my old Corrado (what are the odds?), this could be my next 'sensible' car...
quote:Yep. Production ceased 1995, I believe, but the last of the Corrado VR6s (like mine) were registered on 96N-plates. A handful are on 96P-plates (there's one for sale at AutoTek, next door to Dave Batty actually), but these were late registrations.
after the sad demise of the original Corrado back -- what, 1996?
quote:I very much doubt it. I doubt that VAG would want to steal sales away from the Audi TT for one thing.
If it's anything like my old Corrado (what are the odds?), this could be my next 'sensible' car...
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Perhaps, but I've always thought that the Corrado strayed a little too much into Audi territory anyway. Perhaps VW agree and that's why the Corrado has never been replaced.
Obviously this is just my opinion.
You could be right -- though I never felt the Corrado was a luxury car as such. It had a few toys but nothing majorly special and had a strong VW (rather than Audi) family look and feel to it.
At the time the Corrado came out, the Golf Gti still had the hot hatch spirit - look at the same car now.
The biggest worry for me would be that the new Corrado would suffer from the same 'dumbing down' process, get the VW branding exercise with a lardy, soggy drive and lifeless steering.
I'm afraid I don't trust VAG to make a true drivers car anymore, the Corrado was the last VAG car I drove which was truly entertaining.
The biggest worry for me would be that the new Corrado would suffer from the same 'dumbing down' process, get the VW branding exercise with a lardy, soggy drive and lifeless steering.
I'm afraid I don't trust VAG to make a true drivers car anymore, the Corrado was the last VAG car I drove which was truly entertaining.
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The golf 4motion is a cracking car .
Bit front end heavy, too much understeer for me and the suspension was too soft. Plus, like all VAG products the steering gives very little feedback.
The V6 engine is nice though, good spread of torque, be nice to see it in an good drivers coupe.
I always thought it WAS the replacement for the Scirocco. Then again that name too suffered from the revision process. The MkI had the looks and the right "essence" but suffered from severe under-engineering in the chassis and suspension. The MkII pretty much got it right but the middle-age spread was already beginning to show....neither car was particularly quick but they were VERY good fun!
You can now pick from loads of body styles within the VAG group but all are dull golf's underneath. VW need some assistance from Lotus consultants when it comes to designing fun handling cars these days. They should build a car that handles well from the outset (like Evo) and dumb it down for the lesser models with soggy steering and soft dampers. This would be better than designing a 'soggy' car and trying to 'uprate' it's handling with bolt -ons later.
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