Cops wreck another supercar... Or so the daily fail thinks!

Wait, Rroff are you saying that a VR6 is a supercar or that it was compared to supercars by journalists? As they're both completely idiotic, but the latter is at least believable.
 
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Wait, Rroff are you saying that a VR6 is a supercar or that it was compared to supercars by journalists? As they're both completely idiotic, but the latter is at least believable.
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He is saying at the time the VR6 came out, it was described as a supercar by the motoring press.

At the moment, anyway. He keeps changing his view. He started out by saying..

the Golf VR6 was technically classed as a super car...
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Wait, Rroff are you saying that a VR6 is a supercar or that it was compared to supercars by journalists? As they're both completely idiotic, but the latter is at least believable.
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I'm saying that when the car was released it was compared to a supercar, often classified as a supercar, etc. by mainstream motoring institutions.

I'm not saying the VR6 is a supercar as such.
 
Rroff said:
Autocar's headline IIRC was "The new Golf that beats a BMW" or something like that and went on to describe it as close to a supercar as the everyday man could get.
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Well that's not comparing it to a supercar, just a fancy way of saying it's quick for it's price.
 
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I'm saying that when the car was released it was compared to a supercar, often classified as a supercar, etc. by mainstream motoring institutions.
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You have still yet to demonstrate this.

A buyers guide from a random website and something from the Independant doesnt count.
 
Yeah those were countering the "no one would claim it was near a supercar" comment.

As I said if anyone does find the magazines from back then you will probably find I'm correct in that it was bundled in classification with supercars at that time. Unfortunatly I don't just happen to have 10 year old magazines to hand to prove it.
 
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As I said if anyone does find the magazines from back then you will probably find I'm correct in that it was bundled in classification with supercars at that time.
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Despite having absolutely nothing in common with them?

Did they also bundle the Ford Transit in with the convertible sportscar section?
 
I can't help that it sounds absurb these days but you have to remember there weren't as many affordable high BHP cars back then, perspective was a little different it stood out a lot more at the time than something similiar would now.
 
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Rroff, Back in the day (I'm 41) I was a car salesman, worked for Citroen in the early 90's, and have Copies of Autocar going back to the very early 80's.


I don't recall any Golf being described as a supercar in that publication nor any others of its time.

As an example, I have to hand a copy of Autocar, dated 11 April 1990, road test of the Sierra Cosworth 4x4, its interesting to see what its classed with given its a league above a Golf VR6....
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Not one "a supercar"

Do I really have to dig through my back issues & find a road test of the VR6?

I somehow doubt you'll be posting a photo / scan of an article of the era that says otherwise.

Until then......

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Rroff said:
I can't help that it sounds absurb these days but you have to remember there weren't as many affordable high BHP cars back then, perspective was a little different it stood out a lot more at the time than something similiar would now.
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What are we talking, 170bhp hatchback in the mid 90s? Hardly ground braking stuff.
 
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Rroff said:
I can't help that it sounds absurb these days but you have to remember there weren't as many affordable high BHP cars back then, perspective was a little different it stood out a lot more at the time than something similiar would now.
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As Fox has already pointed out, it has less power than a middle of the range middle management saloon from the same era?
 
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Rroff said:
As I said hard to find them online, as back then a lot of it was printed in magazines and not so commonly published online.

Not even looked at supercars.net so not sure about that one.

Guess a lot of it comes down to perspective - I was quite into Golfs at the time and plainly remember the VR6 hype on launch.
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You had a case of fanboyism before it was ever heard of I promise. I was there back then, in the day, at some points driving a MK2 GTi and I promise you, no one in their right mind thought the VR6 was anything more than a quicker GTi. Porsche Turbo and Testarossa supercar, Golf not close, even ones with a V6 up front.
 
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