Friday, August 8, 2014

Fastbacks & Hatchbacks Friday! 08/08/14

I found myself pondering for awhile about which car to select as our first Fastbacks & Hatchbacks Friday feature. My first thoughts wondered to Honda, as they've been part of the hatch game for quite some time, and the S2000 even has some pretty awesome aftermarket fastback hardtop options for purchase. But I realized that starting things off with a Honda may be a little too risky. We have to build a decent reputation here at The Daily Driver before we can drop a Honda on the audience without receiving all that unnecessary negativity from the seemingly massive anti-Honda crowd. That's when my mind went the obvious route. There's one company that's been doing hatchbacks for decades. I mean, some of the flagship vehicles for this company are sold exclusively as hatchbacks. Of course, I'm referring to that wonderful Deutschland automaker, Volkswagen.

Now, if you noticed our previous blog post, you may be thinking "well, it's clear that this blog is only going to be posting about German vehicles." It may seem that way, and we may genuinely love (and I mean LOVE) German engineering, but we can assure you, our future posts will be very well-rounded, covering literally every automaker we can think of. The reason we're going ahead and using two Germans back to back, is because...well honestly we just need to go ahead and get it out of our system before we can move on to other things. So I hope you will bear with us, as tomorrow we will not go to Germany.

Alright, so on to our selection. If you're a Volkswagen buff I'm sure since the first paragraph you've been assuming you were about to see a picture of a GTI. Well, that's not the case. See, we here at The Daily Driver do not condone the manufacturing of vehicles for specific areas, especially when they are awesome vehicles that we really want in the States. We believe in loving a vehicle whether it's illegal in our home country or not!

So with that, we bring you the beautiful Scirocco R:


For this particular instance, we are focusing on the third generation Scirocco, particularly the Scirocco R. In 2008, Volkswagen reintroduced the Scirocco (unfortunately, exclusively to Europe) after putting the brakes on production nearly 20 years prior. And I'd like to say, they must have taken absolutely all of that time designing the body of the third generation because it's the most perfect hatchback I have ever seen. The downfall of many hatchbacks in the past has been their lack of aggression, but the third generation Scirocco made up for all of it. Just look at that front end!

The reason we have specifically chosen the Scirocco R is because we like things faster and with more factory goodies because we're humans and humans always want more. The R is based on the GT24 that was used to race around the Nurburgring. If for some reason you don't know what the Nurburgring is, just know it's the most important racetrack in the world. Anyway, the R has a pretty sweet 2.0L engine that cranks out a pretty impressive 261 horsepower. That's a lot of fun packed under the bonnet (yes, bonnet, because when you're talking Euro you have to get into character) for a stock hatchback. The R also comes with some nice exhaust and wheel factory upgrades, as well as a slightly different face for better airflow. There are also a few other little factory goodies that come exclusively on the Scirocco R. Overall, this is one of the most awesome hatchbacks I wish we had in the States.


Here's the section some might find controversial. If you aren't a fan of stance, pretend you never saw this. I, personally, love a very low Scirocco R and I wish I could have one to "ruin":


Credit to Vossen Wheels for the photo of that beautiful machine and those custom CV3s! Also, I've seen how much people seem to hate Vossen Wheels. I also hate that I feel the need to defend myself, but just keep in mind I don't care. We at The Daily Driver love all cars and believe just about every aftermarket part manufacturer out there is doing at least one thing right. Credit to anyone out there spending his or her valuable time to bring us awesome parts for our cars. And credit to Volkswagen for the third generation Scirocco, and especially the Scirocco R.

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