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The New Polo GTI

I lived in Italy for two years (came back in 2004) and I loved it there.  A small road with room for 1.5 american SUV's is a 5 lane superhighway and a back alleyway... right away belongs to whoever has the faster car/larger set of balls.  In Gaeta I rented a Mk4 Golf 1.6 16v and it was a beast.  220 klicks an hour, dodging APE's (pronouced OPPIE) in the slower lane and Mercedes doing MUCH more than 220 in the fast lane... good fun.  The best though is the two lane mountain roads in Sardinia.  You have to be a little crazy or very close to God to haul ass through there... actually a little of both helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces+chris.p.bennett=navy.mil@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+chris.p.bennett=navy.mil@scirocco.org]On
Behalf Of Mark Hausler
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:12
To: Peel; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: The New Polo GTI


I was was in Italy for 9 days a couple of weeks ago
and it is such a different car experience. Our rental
was a 4 door Smart car (the one that TopGear slept in
for 24 hours). The VW's there were cool. THe MKV Golf
is real nice in person and the Polo and the Lupo
(smaller than a Polo) are way cool. I would buy a new
Polo in heartbeat. Small, light, very good looking. I
even saw a new Fox- but that might be the replacement
for the Lupo.  

All the car there are small, space is tight in the
citys and even on the roads, not as many cars but the
roads are narrow and the freeways are way narrow
compared to ours. You deffently have to know where the
corners of you car is. Drive 90kph on a freeway with a
tour bus 3 feet on your fight and the guard rail 3
feet on your left (and the guard rail is at eye level)
in the rain. And that was in a MKIII Gti 16v  (yes A3
16v). Oh and it had different smaller bumpers. We call
them euro bumpers, over there they jsut call them
bumpers.

-mark


--- Peel <scirocco_gti@juno.com> wrote:

> LOL! The original accord was slightly larger than a
> Scirocco. The Fiesta was slightly smaller than the
> Rabbit.
> 
> SUVs are an example of incredibly successful
> marketing - convincing a significant portion of our
> population that they "need" an SUV, which in reality
> most people don't need. ;-)
> 
> It is probably not a cooincidence that U.S.
> automaker's largest profit margins (by far)come from
> the low-tech trucks and SUVs.
> 
> ===========================================
> Mark
> 1987 Scirocco 16V (Flash!), 1982 Scirocco (FOR
> SALE), 1981 Scirocco S (Project X), 1987 Golf GT,
> 2003 Beetle (Heavy)
> www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm (about 8 years out of
> date)
> Contact me directly at Scirocco_GTX@yahoo.com
> 
> and they would be correct, trucks and SUVs outsell
> everything else here in the US.  that is why small
> cars like the polo were never sold here.  ford tried
> with the polo-sized fiesta in the late 70s, but
> americans prefer accord/passat sized sedans, not
> polo-sized hatchbacks.  
> 
> --- Peel <scirocco_gti@juno.com> wrote:
> 
> > VWOA thinks we only want to drive tanks and SUVs.
> > 
> > ===========================================
> > Mark
> > 1987 Scirocco 16V (Flash!), 1982 Scirocco (FOR
> > SALE), 1981 Scirocco S (Project X), 1987 Golf GT,
> > 2003 Beetle (Heavy)
> > www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm (about 8 years out of
> > date)
> > Contact me directly at Scirocco_GTX@yahoo.com
> > 
> > Damn VW for not importing these here.
> > 
> > If gas price keeps on increasing, maybee we'll see
> > theem in North America...
> > 
> >
>
<<http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/volkswagen_news/article_1562.shtml>
> > >
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > Marc
> > '83 Scirocco
> > '97 A4 Q
> > 
> > 
> > 
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mark hausler
'81 scirocco s
'03 20AE GTI
'83 GTI (project car)


	
		
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