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Hello, I've been lurking (on) this forum for quite a bit. I am the proud owner of a Candy white Scirocco since beginning of April, and loving every cm I drive with it and grabbing every opportunity to drive it as well.....
I just love this car. I bought a stock model, but it had almost everything I wanted.
It was funny how I got around to buying the Scirocco really. I was a Toyota driver, and had a black Corolla 2.0 Diesel, which I had been driving the last 4 years, and I loved it really. But as it had was a manual gearbox(is that correct English), and I have a bit of trouble with my left knee, we were looking for a car with an automatic gear. So off we went to the Toyota dealer and asked him what he had that was sporty, fun and automatic gearbox. The answers were a bit dissapointing, as I had the choise between a RAV4 or an Avensis. The RAV I kinda liked (a bit), but the Avensis was way too - let's say middle-aged - for me. My hubbie then stated: Toyota isn't on the ball right now, they don't have something fast, fun and sporty. And then he mentioned VW had brought out a new version of the Scirocco. My reaction was: that's a car I want to see as I always loved the earlier Scirocco's. Later that evening we went over to the VW dealer close to home and he had a black one in the show room. After drooling at it from the other side of the window, we made a note in the agenda to go and see it inside the next Monday. (but frankly I was in love already). That monday we went there and I was lost.
The only thing that was unbelievebaly dissapointing was the waiting periode after ordering one: up to 6 monts of waiting time... that was a major bummer. The dealer mentioned that there were still 2 Candy White Rocco's in stock in Brussels, but as white was the opposite of the color I love the most (black), we were not about to buy a car in a color that we hadn't seen, only on pictures.
My hubbie then started his search for a dealer that had a Candy white Rocco in his showroom and the next Thursday he had found one, rather close to home, so we went to admire this white beauty.
I was totally gone when I laid eyes on it, so gorgeous was it. As far as I'm concerned, the lines of the Rocco look best on a white one.
After drooling over this thing of beauty, and a talk to the sales person, and hearing that this was a stock model with about all the specs I wanted, and also getting a good price deal to my opinion, the beauty was bought and I would take delivery the next Saturday (a major improvement on the VW waiting time of more than 6 months!)
That Saturday I went and picked up my thing of georgousness, and since then I'm loving it more and more. I normally don't do a lot of mileage (or kilometers how they are called on my side of the NorthSea), about 12500 km a year, but I already suspect that I'm going to do a whole lot more with my new toy.
It's a great car, and I'm loving it to bits....... The only thing I hate is that all the bugs in Belgium want to hitch a ride and stick to the front ......
I'll post some pics as soon as I get around to find out how to post pics on this forum.
Greets,
Kat
I just love this car. I bought a stock model, but it had almost everything I wanted.
It was funny how I got around to buying the Scirocco really. I was a Toyota driver, and had a black Corolla 2.0 Diesel, which I had been driving the last 4 years, and I loved it really. But as it had was a manual gearbox(is that correct English), and I have a bit of trouble with my left knee, we were looking for a car with an automatic gear. So off we went to the Toyota dealer and asked him what he had that was sporty, fun and automatic gearbox. The answers were a bit dissapointing, as I had the choise between a RAV4 or an Avensis. The RAV I kinda liked (a bit), but the Avensis was way too - let's say middle-aged - for me. My hubbie then stated: Toyota isn't on the ball right now, they don't have something fast, fun and sporty. And then he mentioned VW had brought out a new version of the Scirocco. My reaction was: that's a car I want to see as I always loved the earlier Scirocco's. Later that evening we went over to the VW dealer close to home and he had a black one in the show room. After drooling at it from the other side of the window, we made a note in the agenda to go and see it inside the next Monday. (but frankly I was in love already). That monday we went there and I was lost.
The only thing that was unbelievebaly dissapointing was the waiting periode after ordering one: up to 6 monts of waiting time... that was a major bummer. The dealer mentioned that there were still 2 Candy White Rocco's in stock in Brussels, but as white was the opposite of the color I love the most (black), we were not about to buy a car in a color that we hadn't seen, only on pictures.
My hubbie then started his search for a dealer that had a Candy white Rocco in his showroom and the next Thursday he had found one, rather close to home, so we went to admire this white beauty.
I was totally gone when I laid eyes on it, so gorgeous was it. As far as I'm concerned, the lines of the Rocco look best on a white one.
After drooling over this thing of beauty, and a talk to the sales person, and hearing that this was a stock model with about all the specs I wanted, and also getting a good price deal to my opinion, the beauty was bought and I would take delivery the next Saturday (a major improvement on the VW waiting time of more than 6 months!)
That Saturday I went and picked up my thing of georgousness, and since then I'm loving it more and more. I normally don't do a lot of mileage (or kilometers how they are called on my side of the NorthSea), about 12500 km a year, but I already suspect that I'm going to do a whole lot more with my new toy.
It's a great car, and I'm loving it to bits....... The only thing I hate is that all the bugs in Belgium want to hitch a ride and stick to the front ......
I'll post some pics as soon as I get around to find out how to post pics on this forum.
Greets,
Kat
