In Sacramento Yesterday......happened upon
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In Sacramento Yesterday......happened upon
While on business yesterday in Sacramento, California I happened upon a young dude exiting a brand new spankin' Silver Anniversary VW GTI. We struck up a conversation about it's performance, cost, engine, and such which in turn brought up memories. That car rocks! Specification includes sports suspension, modified bumpers, wider sills, 18" BBS alloy wheels, a roof spoiler and a chromed tailpipe. Inside, there were black w/red stitching Recaro front seats, aluminium pedals, a golf ball-shaped gear lever ****; 0-60 in 7.9 seconds;315mm (12.4") diameter vented front and 256mm (10") rear vented brakes with red powder coated calipers;and a 1.8Turbo 20valve engine with 180 horses. Needless to say I drooled. Not too bad for a $23K (USD) car....except it needs an extra pair of doors. Anyone else seen one?
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Me too. Except it'd be black. They apparently only make silver, white and black for this 25 year version. Are you FoxyMazda thinkin' about it? I would if I bought a second car.
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Like BlueLedz said: the 1.8T is fully equipped and ready for mods to race. Check out VWVortex.com and their discussions on the GTI 337 and pics. Also, to add to it: under their discussions their are some intelligent posters there who speak highly of the MazdaSpeed Protege being better than the GTI 1.8T. My favorite quote: "Mazdaspeed P5 = "bye bye GTI"
Check out their threads:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=497779
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=527590
FoxyM. - "can I visit your garage?"
Check out their threads:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=497779
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=527590
FoxyM. - "can I visit your garage?"
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