VW Corrado

[XJeacdabnow]

I gotta tell you guys about this car I have been driving for the past week while my baby, The xj waits for a FL Regestration sticker. I dislike lowered hondas and all that crap as much as the next Jeeper, but I may have found a new apperation for there style of cars and driving. This 1991 VW Corrado G60 is awesome. It has a superchared 4cylinder and makes 170Hp and weighs less than 1 ton. That makes for some fun, loud, and thrown back in the seat interstate driving:D If any of you guys ever have a chance to drive one, go for it. It might make you think about buying a second car, and making it a sports car ;)
The people that own them are like us, too. do a web search on them and see how many tech forums come up, its amazing. Anyways, check the pic and tell me what you think.

[Drewlee77]

I pulled the seats out of a wrecked Corrado and put them in my 66' mustang. I don't know much about the car itself - but I really liked the seats! Although, getting them in the mustang cost me alot of blood and sweat... the germans don't do anything simple it seems! anyway, my seats were black leather and had great support for the turns and weren't too bad on long trips even! I don't know your budget for this car, but you may also look at the newer GTI's (they are basically fast Golf's - but they can outrun a Z3). I've always been a fan of the Corrado though. Should be good for 140 mph as well... enjoy!

[XJeacdabnow]

I have to tell you guys that I just got back from an excursion to Richmond to pick up a car and drive back. WOW does that car handal! Its about 240miles there and back and I made the trip in about 3 hrs!. I found a couple of bmw's that waned to go fast and I was right with them going about a buck 10! I am definatly going to purchase one of these for my sport ride along with my jeep. You guys have to drive one, the Germans did this car right!!!!!

[xjblue]

I have always loved the Corrado as well. It is the only veedub that was ever a dream car of mine. Never had the pleasure to sit behind the wheel so I must say I appreciate the report. I started liking the XJ during high school partially because this cute girl drove (her parents) cherokee chief! I also started liking classic Mustangs about that time when an early stang owner showed up to help us when my frinds Blazer wouldn't start. I was into those bang for buck style and I thought the Corrodo was really cool when it came out. Well, two dream cars down! Now all I need is a Corrado a 300zx a Lotus an MJ a Volvo cross country a etc. etc.....

drewlee77 ya still got that 66 stang? Mine is a 66 as well. It will be quite a while before it hits the road again. :(

[Drewlee77]

nope. sold it. I needed something reliable that I could take on trips and have room for cargo. Plus I got tired of 16 mpg of premium... plus I got tired of cops pulling me over even when I didn't do anything wrong (I had one cop lie through his teeth and claim he clocked me at 55... from a standstill, while turning left, in less than 40 feet....that kinda stuff gets old) plus I got tired of fixing it....the list goes on. It would have been fun to keep - if I could have gotten my Jeep and kept it as a toy. It just wasn't possible. I hope you enjoy yours though!

How much does the Corrado weigh? I really doubt it weighs less than a ton. the only sports car I have ever seen that weighed less than a ton is the Lotus Elise. Even a Miata weighs more than that!

[xjblue]

My 66 assisted me with my first and only cop/ticket experience, the other helpers where the blond in the convertable speeding ahead of me wich got the Nevada Trooper to turn around in the first place and the boring drive on I-80 betwean Elko and the middle of nowhere wich lead to my impatience hindering me from checking to see if he turned around. :doh:

on http://www.vw-corrado-club.co.uk/main.htm they list the Corrado weighing in at 2,731lbs. A friend of mine was into tuning Golfs(?) when the Corrado was available, I remember him saying that he could get more performance due to them being lighter than the Corrado or something like that.

[XJeacdabnow]

yes, but you forget about one small thing, A SUPERCHARGER STOCK!

[ACE]

Someone say Corrado? :cool:
Here's mine. Alpine White '92 G60. I bought it new in '92 and have kept it all original too. I recently sold it however I'm thinking about buying it back from the guy I sold it to. I really love that car. The G60 was pretty good in it's day but most anything out nowadays could walk it. As far as character goes though, nothing can touch it.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid61/p6943140ecc1e32cad014be0bc35f2659/fc376b7d.jpg

[XJeacdabnow]

The one I have been driving is pretty well suped up. Neuspeed products all the way around. Camshaft, pchip, intake, g60hp kit,and hi flow exhaust. all most forgot the engine pullys, and the lowering coils. The guy my father bought it from was a corrado master! This car has to be making a good bit more hp that the stock, I would maybe guess after doing some reasearch at the Corrado club of america that its making almost 200hp. It hauls ass! What a car.

[ACE]

Even with those mods you'd still be hard pressed to just equal the performance of todays compacts. I love the Corrado's but I also am realistic. I bought a '92 SLC (VR6) for my wife shortly after I bought the G60 and that was more of a hot rod (money pit though). Got rid of that after just a year because of so many problems but it sure would go.
I wouldn't recommend a Corrado as a second vehicle either, maybe a 3rd vehicle simply because of their age and reliability history and even more so if it's modded at all. My G60 was the most reliable car I've ever owned and I owned it for 10 years and 90k miles however my case seems to be an anomaly. You can verify this by perusing some of the Corrado boards out there.
Good luck with it and post pictures when you have them!
Btw, that pic you attached is a VR6 not a G60.

[xjblue]

Joe, that Corrado fit you just right! Did your other half make you get rid of it? If you get it back you will have to let me see what it's like behind the wheel of that sweet piece of German engineering!

Of coarse anyone who chooses the "rice burner" option on the poll doesn't know what they are talking about. ;)

[XJeacdabnow]

Hey you have a pretty good eye with the Vr6 picture. Thats my next purchase!I didn't think anyone would notice that. So far the car has done really well. It has 125,000 miles and dosen't miss a beat. We have had it for 3 years now too. those things are a labor of love, If you treat It right It will treat you right.

I will get some pic's up tomorrow. Thanks for all the responces, I didn't think many jeepers would know of such an obscure car produced in the early 90's. Right on!:D :cheers: :clap: :guitar:

[ACE]

Hey Jared, e-mail me. What's up with ya?
Funny story on why I sold the Rado. Came out from the grocery store one day to find a business card on the windshield on the back it said, "when you're ready to sell, call me." I wasn't even planning on selling it. It was going to be my daily driver since we had bought a new Passat about a year earlier for my wife. But the wife and I started thinking. If we could get what we wanted out of the car which was about $2000 more than high book, then we would do it and pay off what we owed on the Passat and I'll just use the Jeep for my daily driver for a while. If not, no big deal either because I would just as well keep the Rado. We called the guy up about two weeks later and told him we weren't planning on selling the car but we'd like to hear his offer. He came and looked at it, test drove it and asked what we wanted. Sure as sh#$ he didn't even low ball us and we went to the bank right there and did the transaction. He paid cash for it. We paid off the Passat. My wifed cried when the guy left the bank in the car she loved it so much. Now I'm looking for a miserly car to use for work.

[CheapXJ]

last I checked a VW was a kraut burner...

and I like kraut!

now... do you know what this is, and what's special about it?

http://members.aol.com/calawaymk2/images/rocco in dayton.jpg

[XJeacdabnow]

Wow, nice schoreroco (spelling?) You have a turbo or a supercharger on that thing? That car was the first VW purchase for pops about 6 years ago. The one we bought was pretty beat though. After the shifter fell through the floor we got rid of It and ended up with the Corrado

[ACE]

Looks like a nice turbo, 8v Scirrocco.

[xjblue]

don't see too many of those scirroccos around hear anymore. looks like a VW show judging by the background.

Joe,
So the wife cried eh... thats to bad, at least it sold well. I'll e-mail ya, we will have to go wheel'n!

[CheapXJ]

Time!!

It's a callaway scirocco (made by the same callaway that does the corvette conversions)

there were only 20 or 34 of them made (depending on who you talk to)

a good friend of mine found one and we built a full-on drag car out of it. pushin 22lbs of boost, TSI intercooler, 1.8L bottom end with dished pistons and it still pings a little with 112 octane under full boost.

I don't have any pics of Rob's, but it looks VERY similar to the one pictured (without the ATS cup wheels, and it has a GTX front end on it)

but yes, it was a factory turbo scirocco, and damn that car is FUN to drive... anywhere!!

and yep... there's a few Jeep dudes who know VWs too :D (honestly, I've probably spent MORE time wrenchin' on Veedubs than wrenchin' on Jeeps :eek: )

[vwkaferman]

If you love the G60 Corrado, then you'll LOVE the VR6 variant. G60 did 0-60 in something like 8 or 9 seconds, VR6 did it in almost 7 flat. Top speed 140+.

I owned a GTI (Golf) VR6 whilst in Germany, very capable car.

But 168 hp out of that tired 1.8 supercharged 8 valver does not a fast car make. BUT, there's help, pulley, intake, exhaust, chip tuning, very nice car.

Fun little car, still love them to this day. I just hope they (VW) DON'T bring back the Corrado, as with everything else VW, it loses it's soul.

James

[casm]

Hey, Remi... As much as I like the topic, I'm in agreement with you.

[vwkaferman]

and yep... there's a few Jeep dudes who know VWs too :D (honestly, I've probably spent MORE time wrenchin' on Veedubs than wrenchin' on Jeeps :eek: )

Same here! :) Been wrenching on VDubs since I was 14, still have my first car, 74 Beetle, nearing 20 years, and it's less than 20ft away from me as we speak.

James

[Darky]

My wife's dad bought her a Scirocco a while back for her first car. It needed a fuel pump before it would run though. She says it was red with a sunroof and she loved it. He said he couldn't find anyone with a fuel pump unless it were to be imported and that would've been too expensive. So they sold it and she ended up with an 85 Nissan pickup. She loved that Scirocco though and was sad to see it go. And coming from her, that's saying something since she hates cars, especially hatchbacks. She's a pickup truck girl...

Now one question: Is it pronounced Sir-occo or Skir-occo?

[sintax]

The G60 is a great motor, the supercharger is a bit tempermental and you have to keep up on its rebuilds. Your best bet is to replace the Gladder with a twin screw and you'll be in business.

[Citat3962]

I say hell no just because I recently got rid of one...

If you want to know why I can tell you in three numbers..

bought in 2000

Driven a TOTAL of 3850K miles

Total invested with purchase price????

15K plus plus plus...

You want a big honkin money pit? buy the first one you get your hands on..

Want a unique car?

Find a REALLY nice one and still expect to toss cash at it hand over fist..

Fast elegant highly modifyable!

Expensive. easy to break, Proprietary Corrado only parts that are both hard to find AND expensive.

Large aftermarket support and MASSIVE enthusiast base....

I LOVE them thats why I nurtured that un-grateful bitch for so long with so little payoff...

They can be your best friend or your worst enemy..

having owned one I'm happy with less than half what I invested in my raddo into both an XJ and an 86 GTI with a motor swap....

And Ive TRIED to break the jeep and the GTI and it's just a whole different ball game in the reliability and simplicity of maintenance...

The G60 is a good motor but the Digifant fuel injection that runs it is quirky because Volkswagen decided to reverse engineer the Bosche L Jetronic (used on most 80's turbo porcshe's and large BMWs of the same era) and create their own boost sensitive Fuel injection as well as a pedestrian model to go in their Golfs...

BIG mistake.. all the bosche systems used before them were flawless even when NEVER maintained..

If you get a corrado do youself a favor and find a VW ONLY mechanic... not someone who says they've done them before... someone who ONLY works on VWs will be the only person you want under your hood.. if their shop doesn't have at least one or two broken 85-99 Volkswagens outside and more in the shop you are at the wrong shop..

They can be great cars or they can be nightmare basket cases in a pretty container that sits in the driveway and garners your eventual scorn..

Good luck sir..

[theksmith]

I love VW anyway, and miss my Jetta... but, The Corrado is my absolute favorite v-dub... But I have agree that you should love it from a distance unless you have a huge disposable income!

[casm]

Now one question: Is it pronounced Sir-occo or Skir-occo?

I always learned it as 'sure-occo'. Sir-occo is probably closest; ski-rocco just seems wrong. Of course, there's always the definition (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=scirocco) on dictionary.com for a definitive answer...

[Glenn B]

I always learned it as 'sure-occo'. Sir-occo is probably closest; ski-rocco just seems wrong. Of course, there's always the definition (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=scirocco) on dictionary.com for a definitive answer...

casm is correct. I worked for VW, and am a HUGE fan.... anybody that complains about having to dump a ton of cash in to them is obviously hiring out. Very easy to work on. :)

["Wolz"]

I have owned an Mk I 84' Rabbit GTI, a Mk III 97' DE GTI VR6, and a Mk IV 00' Jetta GLX VR6. Almost bought a Corrado G60. Not sure what would be better the G60 or the SLC VR6? The VR6s are HEAVY= understeer happy. The VR6 sounds incredible. Have you heard a R32's exhaust note? Kinda rough, not like my VR6 with Neuspeed exhaust but nice in its own way. I modded my 97' GTI very nicely and the correct way but the MacPherson strut front suspension destroyed the bushes. I don't like Mac setups in the VW's. For the rear, I bent two rear beams, I don't like the rear setup either.

Now those suspension setups in the Mk I cars (less weight) is ok IMO. I really want a Mk I Scirrocco. If I hadn't dumped a load a dough in my XJ I could have picked this one up-> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=4545387281&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT <- that is a clean one.

This is my dream, take this 3.2 VR6 R32 engine from HPA-> http://www.streetracersonline.com/videos/b7.php and throw it in the rear of a Mk I Rabbit GTI. Keep it RWD or AWD, not sure. That engine in a subframe were the rear seat used to be.

Have you seen those VW's from Europe, I think from Dubsport, that had two engines. One driving the front and one driving the rear wheels?

[ACE]

Man, this thread is two years old. :dunno:

Glenn, old dubs are easy to work on, MKII and especially MKIII and newer are much more difficult. :laugh3:

The Scirocco was always a cool car.

G60 is a bit more tossable but the VR6 is the better sports car all-around, all else being equal. You can mod a G60 to be a good performer but out of the box and by todays standards, it's pretty slow.
Still one of my favorite cars though.

[Glenn B]

Huh? No need to explain it to me. I grew up working on them air colled gizmo's, then later worked for Volkwagen in Germany. I have a good grasp on em :D


Man, this thread is two years old. :dunno:

Glenn, old dubs are easy to work on, MKII and especially MKIII and newer are much more difficult. :laugh3:

The Scirocco was always a cool car.

G60 is a bit more tossable but the VR6 is the better sports car all-around, all else being equal. You can mod a G60 to be a good performer but out of the box and by todays standards, it's pretty slow.
Still one of my favorite cars though.

[EricT]

nice wheels on that rocco, I have the same ones on my jetta coupe
http://eric16v.baked.net/albums/092504/092504_033.sized.jpg

and here is my other jetta

http://eric16v.baked.net/albums/sp0504/P5070054.jpg

have a 1.8t swap going in the red one

[vwkaferman]

I always learned it as 'sure-occo'. Sir-occo is probably closest; ski-rocco just seems wrong. Of course, there's always the definition (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=scirocco) on dictionary.com for a definitive answer...

This might have been covered already, but living in Germany, when I was married to a German, the correct GERMAN pronunciation is:

sheer-rocco. I still pronounce it like that to this day, don't elongate the "sheer".

Funny, I had a German Spec Scirocco in Germany also, that had a German spec 1.6 GTI swap in it. You wouldn't think 1.6 liters would be any fun, but that thing would redline 4th gear (only had 4 speeds), what a FUN car. Drove the piss out of it.

James

[zfinger]

I have a 92 Nissan 240sx as my little sports car. My automotive love started with cars but the Jeep was a very nice addition. I love dropping a gear and having my head snapped back against the headrest. Unfortunatly the car shuts off at 115 in the top of 4th, and I poped the headgasket last Saturday.

Corrados are really nice, I have a friend with MkII GTI, with Corrado suspention and a VR6, crazy fast, soooo light, and handles like its on rails with Bistein and H&R set up.

[red91xj]

I'm a VW fiend. 'Rados are schweet. I have a MKII Jetta 4 door that is geting ready to geta 1.8t swap. My buddy (who drives a YJ as well) is building a MKI Rabbit with a 1.8t

[EricT]

I'm a VW fiend. 'Rados are schweet. I have a MKII Jetta 4 door that is geting ready to geta 1.8t swap. My buddy (who drives a YJ as well) is building a MKI Rabbit with a 1.8t

that sounds very familiar to what is going to happen to my track car over the winter.