Scirocco Central

Great to get to the weekend ... now for an extended run in this moke.

A little better light last night too - for an hour or so!

I'll stick these up, and then not bore you with further photos - unless I can get some good shots against far better backgrounds:

400+ miles on these by now.

What a pleasure these vehicles are to drive!

Sumatra is a very hit and miss colour - some photos it looks good, others not. It also always seems a slightly different colour.

However your pics do look VERY nice!

So much for those Continental Contiseal tyres!

Does your comes with a spare tyre?

Yes, a tiny one.

I haven't yet checked if all the MY2011 additions are in place or not.

The flat tyre indicator is in the glove compartment, but as the pic shows, I've got Pirelli tyres

The guys at the dealership reckoned it was the first Scirocco through their hands with Pirellis - but where are the 'Sealy' boys??

...... Mind you - what do the words, "Seal Inside" mean that appear on the sides of my tyres

stuaz wrote:Sumatra is a very hit and miss colour - some photos it looks good, others not. It also always seems a slightly different colour.

However your pics do look VERY nice!

Thanks!

What you say is true about Sumatra.

• One carload of people that followed me for several miles the other night reckoned the colour was Bolt-metal Grey .

• Another carload behind me on Sunday morning could see a 'brownish' hue coming through.

It hardly ever looks exactly the same colour - it seems to be very light sensitive!

My friends keep asking me what colour have I got on order, never know what to say. However I usually say to my friends its a gun metal metallic grey in low light conditions but with a huge chunk of sunlight on it get a chocolate tinge showing through. So seems to match what Searchin4aRoc says!

stuaz wrote:Sumatra is a very hit and miss colour - some photos it looks good, others not. It also always seems a slightly different colour.

However your pics do look VERY nice!

Yeah on some photo's I seen it had me worried, thinking I'd made a mistake.

But when you see the car in the flesh it look's fantastic everytime.

bleedsoff wrote:My friends keep asking me what colour have I got on order, never know what to say. However I usually say to my friends its a gun metal metallic grey in low light conditions but with a huge chunk of sunlight on it get a chocolate tinge showing through. So seems to match what Searchin4aRoc says!

Just say brown and look at the horror on there faces!

stuaz wrote:Just say brown and look at the horror on there faces!

Trust me, that works .....

A few more location shots ... .

Last night I took a trip from Londonderry into Co. Donegal - and couldn't resist packing the camera

At Culmore Point, Londonderry, beside a small lighthouse:





At Redcastle, overlooking Lough Foyle:



On the jetty at Moville:

Very nice pics once again keep them coming

On a week's holiday ... therefore some snaps from the North Antrim coastline:

Stunning looking car, seats really suit the Sumatra, have to say it looks black in some of those pictures but the light changes the appearance.
Best of luck with it

Very nice car searchin

Still waiting for mine 4-6 weeks to go

I noticed in the opening pics you are a Leeds fan, do you get to many games??

nice motor mate! I've been down to donellys recently myself looking for a scirocco, got a quote from that same salesman lol. Take it everything went smoothly? Did you have much luck haggling with him?

HT: over 2/3 times a season. Most recent was vs Millwall.

SWL: got best deal in Donnellys. Took quotes from online 'Buy a Car', etc. to him and asked him to match them.

I was down at the coleraine garage yesterday and the manager there was a right twat lol not interested at all! Did he match them or come close? Il head down on monday again and see what he says then anyway! Cheers