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If you really want an accurate/fair comparison, all the details of a specs need to be listed. A standard roc in the UK is not the same as a standard one in Holland, or Belgium, or Germany. Also, prices are usually scaled to expected product volume and population income of the destination country (ju...

Today Autoeuropa (Scirocco's factory) is resuming the production of the Scirocco after a 1 month vacation break. This is strange, I have a confirmed build week of 34 (last week). I picked it up last Thursday so it took me 5 months from placing the order to the car delivery. Is it 5 months a long wa...

There is a related topic:
http://www.sciroccocentral.co.uk/forum/ ... 20&p=16244

... and it will have its looks modified to match the performance of course:

wrighty wrote:Has anyone else had experience of a 16 week wait / ordered in early June?

I've ordered mine in week 20 (May 12). Confirmed build in week 34, estimated delivery in week 40.

She explained the delay due to VW closing the factory in August. When I pointed out that she had just said the car would be built in August she stumbled and said 'they only close it for a few weeks!'. Is it true the factory closes in line with European holiday season? Last year (2008) the factory w...

I've got my build date confirmed at week 34. I've placed my order in week 20, and the estimated delivery will be week 40.

Some spots to check for damage: http://www.scirocco-club.nl/forum/index ... 563#msg563

Several people had those scratches, they're said to be from carelessly loading onto/unloading off of a transporter.

maisbitt wrote: and VW don't charge any more for their metallics than the other brands do.

It depends on the country. In The Netherlands we pay €550 for anything other than candy white (€195 for salsared).

Very nice. I hope I can join the next one. Still waiting on mine, build week 34 (unconfirmed)...

VW service continues to amaze Indeed. I called today to add parking sensors to my order. So the sales person (not the one that sold me the car) asked me, "front and back, right?" "Or do you want the vision system?" I had to tell him, the roc only has 1 type of parking sensors. W...

Called the dealer again today to add Parking Sensors. Estimated build week 34 (same as 3 weeks ago). I ordered on May 12, so 14 weeks to build, add 1 to 2 weeks for delivery = 15 to 16 weeks total. To me it seems the UK has shorter delivery times that the rest of us (I'm from NL), but to be fair, it...

If memory serves me right, I had it on my very first car, a VW Polo Mark II '83.

'99 Opel (Vauxhall in UK) Astra G-CC X2.0DTL

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but the Bluetooth SAP specifications only mentions a SIM-card, not a phone number listing of a phone. This leads me to believe that phone numbers that are not on the SIM-card will not be transferred. I still have my car on order, so I can't check myself ye...

Ordered on the 12th of May (week 20), estimated build week 34.

alex_dlc wrote: but my question is, will they turn?

I have a dutch brochure from September 2008 saying they do, I would assume newer ones will as well.

stan_blade wrote:It was quite embarrasing when this happened in a busy carpark :oops:

Could make a nice spoof of this commercial though

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