[s-cars] Sciroccos and Audis

Tue Mar 13 14:17:40 EDT 2007

Nooooooooooooooooo idea what you could be talkin' bout Jim.  Nope, uh
huh.

Damn fine ebrake that car has tho!  _DAMN_ fine.

Watch them WHOA! Magic Bus! references there, Pat!!! 8-)  Picture
blazing around Senior year of catholic school (914 2.0L injected motor
mind you) in a schoolbus yellow Westy blasting that song, singin' along.
Good timez.

Great //Story, Steve on the Corolla!  HA!!!  Sometimes the best laid
plans just don't execute the way you'd pictured.  BTDT, will do again.
Yes, the //S8 does embody much of that same feeling but takes it to an
entirely higher plateau.  Sorta what happens when you're piloting an
engineering marvel that happens to be the Marque's "flagship".
Combined, that's a neat feeling I tell you.  No, the chictronic is *no*
comparison to that of the Eos of which you speak, no way.  But, does it
ruin the car, for a die hard stick Nazi as meself?  Nope.  Car's
compelling enough everywhere else it don't matter and you just learn to
drive it accordingly.  Fun stuff once you get it down.

Many closet Scirocco fans here, too funny.  I almost found me another
prior to 4kq arrival.  Ah well.  Buddy's looking to buy a 2nd to co-use
with me @ local events, fingers crossed (500E / Scirocco 16v
Jimmaaaaaaay).  There's *the* ultimate one for sale right now in MD but
it's $13 large - gasp.  Recaro Trophy's, 6spd, xenon's, what a set up.
Sigh.  

My bro's nitrous / Dick Shine motor'd '81S used to run with street
bikes, was quite comical.  Them were the daze...

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Pasqualoni, James E [mailto:james.pasqualoni at gs.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:04 PM
To: quattrojedi at aol.com; Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: [s-cars] Sciroccos and Audis

Believe it or not, I've got an 86 5k cstq with a hero e-brake that can
pirouette on a dime and just might still be known to perform maneuvers
like this.  Right PK??? 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [s-cars] Sciroccos and Audis

That is awesome. I once pulled an ebrake-into-a-parking-spot manuver
myself in the rain in York Pa @ York college in front of a bunch of Frat
monkeys who were- ere we say eating fungus that day (they called it the
magic bus ride, I won't confirm if I was on that TRIP or not) in my 85
URQ. One of them still lives down there and overheard the story being
told at a bar a couple years ago, which was a good five years after it
happened. Good times.
PB
3 Audis

-----Original Message-----
From: stevevoit at comcast.net
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:28 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Sciroccos and Audis

My Scirocco was a '77 which I bought new as a college kid after my bro
totaled my Honda car, cobalt blue with tan inside; I even rented a
garage off campus so I could lavish attention on it during the winter
months. I was in Boulder CO and worked up at Winter Park 2 days per week
- my winter driving skills were very well honed.  Used to take pride
that I went 150k miles w/o snow tires, and used chains only once.  In
those days the hwy dept used to place retirees in lawn chairs with
blankets and thermos bottles in the middle of the 2 lane highway to stop
traffic (can you believe that) and verify that snow tires were in place
before heading over the pass.  I used to pull up and say, 'snows all
around' and they would wave me through - I'm not sure they knew what a
tire was, much less the snow version.  Handbrake turns were a marvelous
aspect of this car, too, and I used to be able to spot a parallel
parking spot on the other side of the road and execute a 180 right into
position.  It was very cool.  I recently attempted this on a biz trip in
a rental Toyota Corolla - 30 years later -- in Spokane, WA right in
front of a coffee shop I was to visit.  Bad idea: no damage, but no
friends made either.  Fortunately my appointment had not yet arrived.

A BMW 3.0CS, 944, Turbo Volvo, Turbo Saab later I find that the S6 is
the only car since that has rekindled the kind of fondness I had for the
Scirocco.  It's the combination of engineering content and performance,
sure, but there's somehow a soul to the car that I think stems from
understated competence and exquisite design - all at once.

BTW, I can see why the S8 guys are getting  their rocks off.  I think
the S8 has much the same persona, but with V8 torque.  My concern is for
mileage, and I don't think the trans has the personality of the new
stuff, does it?
Related, I drove a friend's VW Eos with the V6 and auto/manual
transmission.
Can't say enough about how well this trans worked - I really is a
different experience from the auto-stick that we've all experienced in
the rental fleet - nice (fast) 6 speed shifts, rev matched downshifts,
multiple programs - an engaging driving experience.  While I'm a
die-hard for manuals, I would consider the new VW/Audi boxes as an
alternative and I NEVER thought I'd say that.

Thanks for the memories,

Steve, soundin' old but not so very old as I sound, V.

95.5 S6 Seattle

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