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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Charlottesville Va
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The Mark 1's were really cool cars- Italian styling, German quality, nice rev band if low power, and most of all, nimble. Not ultimate anything but light on their feet. That was a revelation to the American mass market at the time. There was NOTHING here that came close (well, maybe the si civic). Flash forward 30 years where 400hp is commonplace and they may seem lame. But as Peter Egan once wrote, its much more fun to completely wring out a 90hp well set up econobox than it is to use 3/10's of a true performance car on the road.
GTI's on 3 wheels doing DSP autocross? More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
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Greg Lepore
85 Targa
05 Ducati 749s (wrecked, stupidly)
2000 K1200rs (gone, due to above)
05 ST3s (unfinished business)
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