>I'm merely quoting from a Car and Driver article on the Scirocco. I assume >they were talking about 0-60 acceleration (low 8/high 7 in the 'roc.) Top >end is supposed to be 125, but I've never tried it.. I owned an '84 8V Rabbit convertible when I lived in Naples, Italy. We routinuely ran it at top speed which was 122-123 mph out on the autostrada. At $4.75 per gallon of gas (in 1991!!!) you didn't do this often... The car was stock except a cheap muffler from JC Whipme. Bought it $250, fixed some minor collision damage and sold it for $4500 before I left. Great little car.
Chris M. <"Busbodger" of "TEAM SLOWPOKE"> Cookeville, Tennessee ICQ# 5944649 scm9985@tntech.edu '78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for my Trans-vair Conversion |
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