CORRADO VR6 - My favorite VW EVER?

so for that good what at I own one that's a really good question [Music] hello guys and welcome to this one with a video which is somewhat over to you I think because it features probably one of my favorite Volkswagens of all time if not the favorite the Corrado vr6 now much like the Capri in the 80s if you're a Volkswagen fan in the 90s like I was this was a car that you always used to promise yourself and I've been lucky enough to own three of them the second one I prepared for track days but kept looking standard and that appeared in Volkswagen driver magazine the third one was more of a restoration and that car actually appeared on fifth gear on two separate occasions but since I sold that car I've not been behind the wheel of one so it's with big thanks to the generous owner of this one a guy called Paul Fox who I've known for a very long time that I'm able to reacquaint myself with probably one of my favorite cars of all time and I can take you along for the ride too so without any further ado let's have a closer look at the timeless Corrado vr6 okay let's start off by talking about the very distinctive color called blackberry metallic it's a bit different to that on the golf vr6 Highline which was called purple violet but it's easily my favorite and one of my three was in this color and it's a one I miss the most the standard colors for the vr6 were red a solid black and white and there are quite a few metallic Snuka cheese as well the gray looks particularly good too you've got these 15-inch speed line wheels on the vr6 model six and a half times 15 ET 45 and they take 205 5015 tires the brakes are pretty small at to 80 millimeters perfectly fine for the road but a bit undernourished for the track and worth noting is that you've got five wheel bolts which was quite unusual the other models for G 60 even the 1.8 16-valve and 2 litre 16 I've all had 4 bolt wheels only the V assets got this this is called the plus axle so it was shared with the Golf GTI that came out funny enough at the same time the Corrado vr6 came out in 92 the cada always had these very racy mirrors which compared to the marks of golfers which were just like flat at the back they're much more aerodynamic and hinted at the cars top speed which was quite good through its day 146 miles per hour I think that was the same as a golf v6 for motion that was a good five years six years later you got a vr6 badge on the grill and one on the back on the early car these were red but they've seen change to the silver color and that was the same as on the golf vr6 to have them in silver the golf the ethics never had them in red for the UK market all the vr6 models got a sunroof they got the beasting aerial which has come from the Moxie Golf GTI 16-valve every Corrado regardless of engine got the active spoiler although I have heard stories from about people who've bought them and they don't work and the dealer says you don't get it as an active spoiler if you haven't bought me ha six but that's not true they all get it and they all are pretty reliable they go come up at about 45 miles per hour you got an oval exhaust or standard this is what it looks pretty standard to me but it's probably mop but the tip does look I think roughly right for the year for the model the right heights worth talking about because that really would be lost out of a showroom on a modern car I mean I can get my it's probably not much difference to the gap me you get on a modern SUV of my hand in there pretty much square but amazingly it goes around corners really well it's got a very good balance of ride and handling much better than say the golf mark - and it's much better than the mark threes which were absolutely terrible very under damped this was obviously set up by someone with a different brief because it drives like a sports car which we'll come to in a sec let's have a look at under the bonnet because that is quite important then we'll have a look inside it so when the vr6 model came out the bonnet was redesigned and probably some other bits as well to accommodate it so if you look at an early car I mean every via every Corrado once the vr6 came out had this shape bonnets even if it had a 16-valve but before the vr6 came out the bonnets were much squarer and this looks much more just much more aggressive while the standard model looks a bit like a Mach 2 golf at the front there we go oh it's a very heavy bonnet partly because of all this soundproofing which is often in very bad condition but this is mean I think he might have replaced at some point the owners had this car for 12 years slowly restored it as he's gone along now any experts out there might have already noticed a few extras under this bonnet that are not standard like that sticker and that relay array over there and that's because this car has got died a via air conditioning which was the one that people fitted I wouldn't say it's Volkswagen approved but a dealership in London course cottesloe square fitted a lot of them us both if you're in traffic in London in the summer you want air conditioning and this amazingly still works it's really cool so there we have the engine so vr6 means V right-hand motor which is a contradiction internally because it means in line V but basically a traditional v6 would be too big to fit in golf platform so Volkswagen very very cleverly engineered a six-cylinder engine that would fit even an inline would be too long like you gave him the BMW so they made like one that was a one cylinder head but the length of basically a four-cylinder engine it's very very clever very very reliable I've got a lot of character to it as well yeah it's a shame that everything's 2 litre T nowadays when you drive an engine like this as will come to you shortly I've got the spark plug removal tool there because they're pretty hard to get to you down in the depths of the cylinder head because of the way the engine was designed so the front end on this car was pretty much the same as Mark 2 golf the back end was pursuits which meant it got passive rear-wheel steering from some trick rear axle bushes which gave it better stability than it would otherwise have ok let's have a look inside we'll start on this side I think this cars got the optional leather interior a lot of cars did to be honest Koff wasn't really that common it's got basically a per set style dashboard which compared to mark 2 golf is slightly more interesting for start you get three dials which is pretty cool so you get a big rev counter big speedo you get coolant gauge their fuel gauge there some warning lights down there the steering wheel is leather as is the gear knob that was a vr6 thing and to me it always reminds me of the Batman sign but this was Mark 3 Golf GTI pre pre facelift wheel it's not a bad wheel haul in the middle should be a Sony stereo that does look pretty similar to this JVC but this guy I haven't got it most of them have gone wrong by now now let's talk about Carmen then because it was very unusual that's this got onto the car really cause Carmen was just a contractor to Volkswagen they weren't parts of Volkswagen at all and they had a factory in osnabrück that did the low volume stuff for Volkswagen unfortunately they went out of business in the naughties but they've since been bought by VW and still they do the lower volume stuff so they do the T rock convertible they do Porsches when Stuttgart's don't have the capacity to do them so yeah they're still going but then now they're just part of them which is called volts for them all in the brook they also did the escort convertible the mark 1 golf convertible as you probably know by the badges on the side of it and they did the a4 convertible so you get you get the picture so this kind of got electric windows one annoyance of the Corrado for some reason though you didn't get it on the on the mark to golf is that you don't have a wide-angle rear view mirror so the owners stuck one on there so he can get a safer view but yeah I always find that a bit peculiar let's have a look in the back so bearing in mind it's quite a small car there was a pretty good use of space I mean I could quite happily in fact I will see me nobody drive down this road I'll get in the back and show you but you never see this on car Wow right then Wow I thought you leave driving position is ooh but ok it's pretty tight I don't think many people get in the passenger seat of this car if I put that back up which is pretty normal it's not bad you know I'm 6 foot tall my head is on there only just yeah quite happily being this is much better than say a 911 and four kids said they'd love it you get the famous rear center armrest I say famous because it does this and inside there is the first aid kit which is one of those stupid things that means a lot to buyers if the car's got one especially if it's got a Volkswagen year so genuine VW and probably like many years out of date and in an emergency you'd probably find yourself still bleeding all over the hard shoulder yeah jim-jim 96 so the car yeah it's almost as old as the car but yeah it's a it's pretty spacious well I think I'm going to save myself the embarrassment of trying to get out of here and I'll just cut to us going for a drive cuz I think it's long over gee okay guys here we are behind the Corrado vr6 is a very distinctive Batman style wheel I've had a lot of fun in these cars over the years both on the road and on the track and therefore it's with a bit of trepidation when I revisit when after such a long time because they could be you should not be your hero's type moment and to be perfectly honest the first impressions and were not that positive driving it around town on bumpy roads it does sound a bit rattly both tremendous pension and then the clutch really needs to have the pedal pressed all the way down otherwise you end up grinding gears which takes a bit of getting used to but it's fine once you do also the engine doesn't really feel as responsive as I remember it it's a bit flats and if you work it hard and that's probably to do with the gears it's an Autobahn car so they are quite long but also because in the intervening however many years I've driven a lot of 2-liter turbo cars which tend to give you what you want when you want it but one thing they can't do if I'm good so from about three and a half thousand we get some noise and then four thousand it it keeps going the problem with that though is that you end up approaching corners quiet fast and you those the massive gap in the wheel arch isn't representative of the cars handling because it is it's going to come to quite a sudden end but luckily even though rolls quite a bit once it's taken its attitude it is quite neutral so you can enjoy that noise even grappa gear and have a hell of a lot of a hell of a law firm if there's still a very fast car bear in mind it's 1992 North sixty six point nine that's not bad that sort of mark five Golf GTI which was thirteen years later and a bit of a performance benchmark admittedly at a lower relative cost so yeah it's it's still a quicker it doesn't feel particularly old once you take the rattle there and get used to the clutch seating positions are really good it's really nice and low the gear shifts quite long compared to modern cars but it's pretty precise third a second which is always the tricky one is perfectly fine brakes they're ok I think they're fine for the road track days that you need to upgrade but it's really too precious to track right now it really is a weekend car primarily because it's hard to get parts you have a little winged skirmish in a supermarket car park I don't know were you gonna get one from I don't think anybody makes them anymore no one's breaking them for secondhand parts because they're just worth so much so what you do so really it's a weekend car but it's bloody brilliant weekend classic doesn't lose any money not particularly expensive to run those especially it's called stealth racing in south amine war actually are about eight miles away that are brilliant there are other specialists as well they're not a particularly complicated car that you need to go to a specialist to service it's just the parts issue really so yeah though for that good what our own one that's a really good question yeah one that I'm gonna ask myself as I Drive home now anyway guys I hope you've enjoyed this thoughts wizard video if you have you know what to do give it a thumbs up please do comment please share it amongst other enthusiasts you may enjoy it and please this is really really important please please do subscribe because a lot of views are from non subscribe and that really doesn't make this this channel sustainable in the long term so please do subscribe and I'll see if the next one's seen in the meantime though I'm going to do a bit more of this while I can because who knows what I'm gonna be able to do it ever again you

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Length: 15min 17sec (917 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020