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Offline SRGTD

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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #170 on: 03 September 2020, 22:00 »
When we’re all driving around in electric milk floats, front grilles will be surplus to requirements. So when that time comes we may well see a change in the general approach to front end car design, which IMO will be a good thing when you look at some of the current oversized grilles.
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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #171 on: 03 September 2020, 22:08 »
Lol that skoda is a milk float... And still has a garbage front end.

But yes I agree that designs for milk floats could and should be unbound from convention.
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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #172 on: 03 September 2020, 23:04 »
Scroll to the left to remove most or all of the grille on that 4 series and it’s a really handsome car.
Maybe with an extra wide number plate plinth to dissect the height of the grille it’ll look bearable.
Eww.

No comment on the Skoda. Just a bunch of geometric lines to break up a featureless front end. The grille possibly isn’t its worst feature!


Milk floats offer a huge opportunity to reinvent sports cars and hot hatches.
All that battery weight (and lets be honest, range should be compromised for performance in cars of that ilk to keep weight down) slung down low in the chassis, the possibilities of really good aerodynamics with no lumpen engine sat in front of the cabin, wheels pushed right out into the corners and immense torque from standstill to whatever speed they decide to cap it at.
Bring it on.
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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #173 on: 04 September 2020, 08:06 »
Too low at the front and it won't meet pedestrian safety regs.

I've just bought a Scirocco and it reminded me that I'd read years ago about how they had to raise it (hence the big wheel arch gaps) as the leading edge of the bonnet was too low.

I'm sure that BMW won't look like that. The way the kidney grille cuts into the lower middle opening is just wrong.
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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #174 on: 04 September 2020, 08:28 »
they are actually already on sale in some markets - exactly like the photo

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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #175 on: 04 September 2020, 09:29 »
'kinell!!!
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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #176 on: 04 September 2020, 09:48 »

I've just bought a Scirocco

What brought that on? What do you think of it?
Always regretted not buying a Scirocco at some point.

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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #177 on: 04 September 2020, 09:53 »
they are actually already on sale in some markets - exactly like the photo



Quite liking the front of my electric milk float....  :grin:

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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #178 on: 04 September 2020, 10:26 »

I've just bought a Scirocco

What brought that on? What do you think of it?
Always regretted not buying a Scirocco at some point.

My first ever car was a mk1 Scirocco GTI

I had 2 Sciroccos, when the MK6 was just too ugly to consider and very expensive for what it was, poorly equipped as standard too, before moving back to the MK7  Golf.

March 09 bought a 140TDI GT in Pewter grey (violet undertones - not sure why they ditched that colour, it was great. The 170 wasn't out at the time and the salesperson implied it wasn't coming to the Scirocco.

6 months later I found out the salesman had lied. The 170 was coming. At 18 months old the Pewter grey Scirocco was swapped for a 170 GT in Rising blue.

When it first came out  everyone was looking at my Sciroccp when out and about. Loved it, apart from the PITA wide doors which were a bugger in car parks if you parked next to someone or someone parked next to you.

When the new shape TT came out, I thought the Scirocco looked a bit long in the tooth and was begging for a new model but VW weren't prepared to bring a new one out.
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Re: Almost said goodbye to VW yesterday.....almost
« Reply #179 on: 04 September 2020, 10:58 »

I've just bought a Scirocco

What brought that on? What do you think of it?
Always regretted not buying a Scirocco at some point.

My first ever car was a mk1 Scirocco GTI

It's for my lad. He will probably have to wait a year or two before he can insure it, being not quite 17 at the moment, but it's a really nice one, so shouldn't loose any money.

It's a 2009 2.0 TFSI GT. Grey with brown leather and a fair few options. I really like it. It needs a little bit of love, but it's a genuine, not messed with looked after little car.

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