[s-cars] NAC: He Said "Scirocco!"

[Jim Pasqualoni]

Wow, mid to high 20 mpg even whilst flogging?  I get no more than 20 mpg per 
tank!  Then again, I'm fat, and my foot is heavy too...  ;-)  Around town 
though, I would imagine 30 mpg is obtainable.  It's the highway miles (75 
mph at 4k rpm...) that kill the mileage.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LL - NY" <larrycleung at gmail.com>
To: <mtgadbois at aol.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: He Said "Scirocco!"


>I too had an A2 GTi, which ate it's tranny. Turns out that was a design 
>flaw
> that VW sort of half covered (gave me $500 towards an $1100 rebuild) at 
> 50K
> miles. Other than that, the car was (reasonably, yeah, there were broken
> plastic bits) durable right up until a storm felled tree landed on it 14 
> yrs
> and 110K heavily autocrossed miles later. If Paulie does post contact 
> info,
> I'm actually half serious. $800 for that sort of raw fun (not too mention 
> 87
> octane mid-high 20 MPG flailing it as hard as you can) works for me.
>
> LL - NY
>
> On 11/29/08, mtgadbois at aol.com <mtgadbois at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> To you buyers,
>>
>> This thread does not seem to die so I'll add my 2 cents.
>>
>> I, too, had a 1981 Scirocco S, white with red interior.
>> It was a bucket of rust. I bought it new and sold it in
>> 1986 to get a new GTI.  The GTI ate its tranny and that
>> was the last time I ever looked at owning a VW. Both cars
>> were a lot of fun but hardly durable.
>>
>> Mark near Chicago
>>
>>
>>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:12:32 -0800
>> From: "Jack Walker" <jack at walkerperformancegroup.com>
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: He Said "Scirocco!"
>> To: "'Ben Swann'" <benswann at verizon.net>, <pkrasusky at ups.com>,
>>     <robert.rossato at hs.utc.com>, <larrycleung at gmail.com>
>> Cc: krasusky4 at comcast.net, s-car-list at audifans.com
>>
>>
>> I had a 81 Red S, too.
>> Loved it until I totaled it on a long left hand sweeper and
>> sneezed...drifted into the gravel on the right hand side, over corrected
>> and
>> it spun backwards into a ditch on the opposite side
>>
>> There seems to still be some running in some of the SCCA classes?
>>
>> Jack Walker
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Ben Swann
>> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 11:23 AM
>> To: pkrasusky at ups.com; robert.rossato at hs.utc.com; larrycleung at gmail.com
>> Cc: krasusky4 at comcast.net; s-car-list at audifans.com
>> Subject: [s-cars] NAC: He Said "Scirocco!"
>>
>>
>> Hey, where is this 'rocco?  I want in on the bidding war!
>>
>> To this day can't believe I sold my '81 sidwinder "S" in 1992  for $1k 
>> and
>> a
>> cell phone
>> I never used.  Anyone want a cell phone - you know the 5 lb Motorola
>> jobbie?
>>
>> Ben
>>
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