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Old 10-26-2009, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by omg516,Oct 26 2009, 01:02 AM
Is this guy serious? Maybe Honda should stop making the Civic and Ford should stop making the F-150 too.
Very serious. What is the similarity in Honda or Ford stopping the Civic or F150?

The Scirocco, underneath the sheet metal, is the same car as the Golf, costs extremely similar to the Golf, yet isn't a bloated looking box like the Golf. The Civic and F150 have no such close relation in their own product lines, so your comment is invalid. VW, on the other hand, could rid the world of an ugly car, as it has an identical, yet not ugly replacement that's being sold right along side of it.
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^ They don't make the Scirocco in a four-door, do they?
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Originally Posted by GinoGT,Oct 26 2009, 06:57 AM
Very serious. What is the similarity in Honda or Ford stopping the Civic or F150?

The Scirocco, underneath the sheet metal, is the same car as the Golf, costs extremely similar to the Golf, yet isn't a bloated looking box like the Golf. The Civic and F150 have no such close relation in their own product lines, so your comment is invalid. VW, on the other hand, could rid the world of an ugly car, as it has an identical, yet not ugly replacement that's being sold right along side of it.
Are you fing kidding me. Are you 15 years old?
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Originally Posted by GinoGT,Oct 26 2009, 08:57 AM
Very serious. What is the similarity in Honda or Ford stopping the Civic or F150?

The Scirocco, underneath the sheet metal, is the same car as the Golf, costs extremely similar to the Golf, yet isn't a bloated looking box like the Golf. The Civic and F150 have no such close relation in their own product lines, so your comment is invalid. VW, on the other hand, could rid the world of an ugly car, as it has an identical, yet not ugly replacement that's being sold right along side of it.
Alright, lets discontinue the best selling car in Europe and 2009 world car of the year just because you think it's ugly.

I'm sorry you didn't get my analogy regarding the Civic and F-150, I mentioned them because they are the bread and butter of their respective companies as the Golf is. If you didn't get that then you must be too busy trying to win an argument to understand logic.
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I LOVE my A3. It's basically a 4-door GTI, but nicer.. Zero problems so far.
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Originally Posted by omg516,Oct 26 2009, 12:16 PM
Alright, lets discontinue the best selling car in Europe and 2009 world car of the year just because you think it's ugly.

I'm sorry you didn't get my analogy regarding the Civic and F-150, I mentioned them because they are the bread and butter of their respective companies as the Golf is. If you didn't get that then you must be too busy trying to win an argument to understand logic.
Okay, I understand your point now. So the Golf/GTI name needs to stay around for the brand/model recognition and so forth. Therefore, best idea: Scirocco body, Golf/GTI badge on the back. Everybody gets to go out to the VW dealer and buy a good old Golf/GTI, plus it'll look a hell of a lot better to boot.

Originally Posted by LEE72,Oct 26 2009, 10:59 AM
^ They don't make the Scirocco in a four-door, do they?
With the amount of platform sharing VW uses in its product line, it would probably be relatively easy.
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I think it's sad that they only upped the HP by 10HP...They are starting to go NSX-S2000 on the GTI.

I mean come on how hard could it be to add 30-40HP from that 2.0T engine?
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Originally Posted by Jacques79,Oct 27 2009, 06:22 PM
I think it's sad that they only upped the HP by 10HP...They are starting to go NSX-S2000 on the GTI.

I mean come on how hard could it be to add 30-40HP from that 2.0T engine?
correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard the U.S. version doesn't even get the 10hp bump...
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Originally Posted by Saint_Spinner,Oct 27 2009, 07:04 PM
correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard the U.S. version doesn't even get the 10hp bump...
correct. 200 hp / 207 lbft again. but, i think i heard it's like 50 pounds lighter overall?


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