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    VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    By forgoing LA, they've missed out on 75% of their potential market.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    I am not impressed.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    that is a weird logo on that Saturn Sky...
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    This is more like it,they should have pushed this through ahead of the let down of the Scirocco,this will sell plenty.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    Only VW could manage to make a mid engined roadster boring. I'm not looking forward to this.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    11/10/08

    @diskreet: Dude. This is boring? What are you are drinking?
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    So, an MR2 that's [probably] twice as expensive, and half as reliable? WHERE CAN I SIGN UP?


    /used MR2s are cheap
    //needs more than 1'^3 of trunk space

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    And everyone and their dog will criticise it, and say that VW is idiotic, and has no idea what they are doing. And VW/Porsche will just quietly continue to make stupidly exorbitant amounts of money. Do they care if it flops? Probably not. It's most likely just being previewed to make some competitor shit its drawers. VW has a habit of doing things like this just to prove that they can do it just as well -- if not better -- than any competitor. The Corrado, the Passat, the Superb, the Phaeton, the R8, the Veyron; all rolled out with a "hey, look what we can do too!" mentality.


    Okay, jaded fanboy rant over. But they have all the required parts across their various brands to make this a seriously, frighteningly good car, and likely for a very reasonable price. Nobody does inter-brand engineering like VW.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    I could see a case for a V6 or 2.0T powered mid-engined VW drop top.


    Either drop a FWD powertrain behind the seats (a-la MR2 and Fiero) or hook a "lesser" engine up to various R8/Lambo parts.


    VW does an awesome job of parts-bin engineering.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    No way VW can build something that good looking.


    Also, I dunno that this is really the season for roadsters.


    Also, there's still a Detroit auto show? Seems a little optimistic (or I'm just too pessimistic. I'm losing perspective like GM shares are losing value).

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    11/10/08

    @Bumblebee: No place or time better than Detroit in January to launch a fun-loving imported convertible.


    What's next? Dodge launching the next-gen Power Wagon in Paris?

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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    VW also announced that, to appeal to the L.A. crowd, all the cars at their booth will be Silver Jettas
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    11/10/08

    @Mysterious Utility Bento: Silver Jettas


    Department of Redundancy Department?

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    It's a 5 year old picture...
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    11/10/08

    @Parkington: And yet it still looks modern and beautiful.
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    Image of Matt Hardigree Matt Hardigree
    11/10/08

    @Parkington: Yeah, like we said, we don't think it'll look so much like this as it will look like the 09 Scirocco.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    If it's MR, why are the air intakes up front?
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    11/10/08

    @brandegee: The engine isn't the only thing that requires air...
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    11/10/08

    @Parkington: "flow of air" rather than just air, might I add.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    11/10/08

    @Parkington: True, but how does the engine get air for all those thousands of explosions every minute? From underneath? Seems like a bad place to take in air. Maybe only on the left side?
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    Me thinks it looks nice and clean..
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    BASTARDS! Now we're stuck with third rate crap like the 370Z reveal.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to VW Mid-Engined Roadster Skipping LA For Detroit Auto Show Unveil
    This thing is on-again off again more than Lindsay Lohan's panties.


    As with the aforemention Ms. Lohan's panties, I'll believe it when I see it in person.

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    11/10/08

    @Feds:

    Touche'

    Or should I say:


    Vous ne pouvez pas toucher la culotte...

    Si vous ne pouvez pas voir la culotte...


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