[s-cars] More S car (scirocco)

[LL - NY]

You are right, FSP. Ooops. Same finger, wrong key.

On 3/14/07, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> VWs ruled in F Street Prepared, not E, through the '90s at least. Didn't
> they get moved again recently, maybe that's what you're thinking about?
>
> GTi is the designation in Europe. All the US-spec cars are GTI. :-P
>
> Kind of like '04 WRX STi and '05 WRX STI.
>
> It doesn't hurt when you can take a 1st gen. Scirocco and drop in a 2L 16v
> 180hp engine along with a close-ratio 5-spd., 4 wheel discs and crazy-wide
> 13" wheels with 205 R-compounds on them.
>
> Cars are getting too heavy to be much fun to drive these days- my Miata is
> a 2200lb. car, maybe less. Even with a relatively weak 116hp, it's fun to
> drive, really fun to drive. My 3300lb. STi has 300hp and it's nowhere near
> as fun to drive as the Miata. Same goes for the S4- with a 3800+ lb. car,
> it's very powerful, very refined and nice, but it's kind of ponderous, not
> very fun to drive.
>
>
> Taka
>
>
> On 3/14/07, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps an interesting side note.
> >
> > My A2 1985 GTi (mit A/C and SR) tipped the scales at Divisionals at 2078
> > lbs. My friends similarly equipped Rabbit GTi tipped the scales at 2039
> > lbs.
> > So, in the years from the early
> > Rabbits to the early A2s, the car gained nearly 10% in weight. while
> > gaining
> > 35% more HP
> > (74 HP for a 1.5 liter FI, to 100 HP for a 1.8 liter HT Fuelie) and the
> > overall performance remained
> > relatively constant (okay, the later cars were "quicker" relatively
> > speaking). Although the
> > early VAG fwd (all Rabbits, Sciroccos (except 16V) and 8V
> > Golf/GTi/Jetta)
> > were classed together in stock and eventually (as ALL older cars do)
> > became
> > uncompetitive in class, when they were moved to the new ESP class, they
> > ruled, until quite recently. Guess there was something to those old WC
> > VW's.
> >
>