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RE: speaking of new VW's
Wow Dan,
Completely the oppsite here, love my 00 Golf TDI and have gotten great
service here locally. Dealers pissing you off or is the Jetta giving you
problems?
Eric
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dan Snow wrote:
> well, as pissed as I am about my last VW purchase (that POS Jetta) I could
> really care less what they come up with and decide to market. Don't get me
> wrong, I wouldn't mind seeing a *new* Scirocco, but I'm not holding my
> breath. Nor am I ever buying another new VW. They can kiss my F&*^%ING Ass
> for the way I get treated whenever I need parts for my other *better* VWs.
> Fucking punks only care about $$....I'm not communist, but you have to
> demonstrate some kind of loyalty to your owners. If you created a product 50
> years ago and have a faithful following of that product (read: old
> air-cooled stuff), you have to respect those people, because if you piss
> them off, they will actually go out of their way to find a company that WILL
> show them some loyalty back.
>
>
> uh....oops, that was kind of OT.....and lengthy.....sorry :o
>
> Dan
> '81 Rabbit Sport Truck
> '87 16v Scirocco
> '00 Jetta
> Tam-pa, FL
> http://home.earthlink.net/~danws69/index.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fry, Larry [mailto:LEF@chem-tronics.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 13:09
> To: danws@tampabay.rr.com; 'MIKE BLAIN'; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: speaking of new VW's
>
>
> Unless they get 300,000 letters, with deposits, they'll just send you a
> nice, polite reply that will start with, "Dear Dan, Thank you for your
> interest in Volkswagen products." and end with "Don't call us, we'll call
> you."
>
> If VW thought there was a viable market for a Scirocco-replacement, they'd
> be bolting 'em together right now. A manufacturer needs to feel that they
> can sell 100,000 units every year for 4-5 years before they will spend the
> millions (no exageration) it takes to bring a new model to market.
> The sport-coupe (that's what a 'Roc really is) market is saturated.
>
> Larry sandiego16V
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Snow [mailto:danws@tampabay.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: 'MIKE BLAIN'; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: speaking of new VW's
>
>
> I'm up for writing a professional letter to them regarding this lack of
> sports cars from VW
>
> Dan
> '81 Rabbit Sport Truck
> '87 16v Scirocco
> '00 Jetta
> Tam-pa, FL
> http://home.earthlink.net/~danws69/index.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of MIKE BLAIN
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 21:45
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: speaking of new VW's
>
>
> I wonder what the response would be if eveyone on this list wrote to VW
> requesting a
> return of the
> Scirocco sports car line. Based on the same concepts- style, affordability,
> and true
> driver
> performance.
>
> In my opinion the GTI, Jetta, and Beetle will never be sports cars- they may
> be made to
> handle and go fast but they look far from being very "sporty". (no offense
> to owners of
> these fine VW's- don't wanna start a flame here.)
>
> The Audi TT is nice but it's not a scirocco- In my opinion the market is
> ripe for the
> return of a true VW sports car.
>
> Mike Blain
>
>
>
>
>
> Night Shadow wrote:
>
> > Um.... DROOL!
> >
> > I hop VW builds it...would love to see a VW smacking up on the Corvettes
> > in the Le Mans races...
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Patrick Bureau wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Check it out... gawd I want one soooo Bad.... 602HP..
> > > http://www.vwvortex.com/news/index_w12coupe01.html
> > >
> > > ___ ___________
> > > / |/_ __/ ___/ A Texan's Scirocco 1985 8v
> > > / /| | / / \__ \ http://www.longcoeur.com/scirocco
> > > / ___ |/ / ___/ / (AIM) patricdlc, (ICQ) 32918816
> > > /_/ |_/_/ /____/
> > >
> > >
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> > Eric
> > Westminster, CO
> >
> > 76 Honda CB400F Super Sport
> > 79 Scirocco (Parts car)
> > 80 Scirocco (Parts car)
> > 81 Scirocco S (2.0 16v swap and complete restoration in progress)
> > 84 Scirocco Automatic (Katy's Daily Driver)
> > 91 Cabriolet (2.0 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)
> > 00 Golf GL TDI (My Daily Driver)
> >
> > "For Aquarians, the physics of loopholes is a perfectly valid science."
> > -Kelli Fox
> >
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Westminster, CO
76 Honda CB400F Super Sport
79 Scirocco (Parts car)
80 Scirocco (Parts car)
81 Scirocco S (2.0 16v swap and complete restoration in progress)
84 Scirocco Automatic (Katy's Daily Driver)
91 Cabriolet (2.0 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)
00 Golf GL TDI (My Daily Driver)
"For Aquarians, the physics of loopholes is a perfectly valid science."
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