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The New Polo GTI

i lived in italy for almost 4 years from late 97 to
early 01, i never had the chance to drive in
sardinia.. i applaud you.  but i agree with everything
you say.  i had an A2 gti 16v and drove on 2-lane
roads people here would call a sidewalk.  the gti
suspension came in handy whilst driving up the alps or
the foothills behind my house.  i could go up faster
than anyone else, except the BMWs and those with ESP
to keep them from spinning off the roads and down the
mountain.  
i drove in the inner city of hamburg, germany,
cobble-stoned roads laid down in 1300, i think.  wide
enough for a horse and cart to get through, with
buildings on each side.  an explorer would lose both
mirrors if it tried to shoe-horn itself in there!!  

--- "Bennett, Christopher P ET1 MARMC 1230B"
<chris.p.bennett@navy.mil> wrote:

> 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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