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  1. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. Its dead. I have got the final photos before it was scrapped. (not me). The interior is still around. I have a thread about Colour Concepts
  2. I run 195/45/r15 78 V Falkens. On protyre they have a offer if you buy 2 you get £10 off (4 £20)
  3. Some of the panels are avalaible on vw hertiage but it is a hit and miss affair. Regarding meets etc. Not really happened for a while to be fair. Forums where the thing 10 to 15 years ago however its all moved to facebook. The last meets that happened south east way was one in Feb 2020 after this covid put a stop to things and the main organiser sold there lupo. There was one oxford way i think but i did not go. I did go to the German car show at Brooklands which was good but a bit overun with porsches which made every other german car interesting. I hope to go this event next year. Possibly more.
  4. I am not in Surrey but nearby. So Surrey is near to me. Depends where it so be fair where you are planning this.
  5. Agreed. But what happened was in the early 2000s diesels where highly promoted and tax groups adjusted from the previous cc category to the emissons based category. However at the time they did not realise about the NOx situation and we ended up where we are now. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It would be ineresting to see what a bus puts out in NOx.
  6. After the annoucment of end of production and the thread y Mk2. I thought i'd make a handy timeline. This possibly may be a little incomplete. But something i put togther for reference purposes. Vw Up Timeline 2007 – Vw Up Concept shown at the 2007 Frankfurt Motorshow. 2009 – Vw E Up concept shown at the 63rd International Motor Show Germany in 2009. 2011 – Vw Up GT concept shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Motorshow. Concept car was scrapped after the Brazilan motorshow 2012 – Vw Up launched in the UK Market with initial offerings being 60bhp and 75bhp engines. 3 and 5 door available at launch. Special editions Up! Black and Up! White avalaible on launch. 2013 - Vw E Up launched (1st Generation) with a 60kw motor, 18.7kw with a 99 mile range. Vw Rock Up and Groove Up launched (same engines as before) 2014 – Vw Street Up launched engines same as before but with 20mm lowered suspension 2015 2016 – Vw Up facelifted all models. Up Beats launched 2017 – Vw Up TSi launched in the UK March 2017 with a 90bhp Turbo charged engine 2018 – Vw Up GTi launched in the UK Febuaruy 2018 with a n113bhp Turbo charged engine. 2019 – Vw UP Gti production paused March 2019 for unknown reasons (at the time). Vw E Up launched (2st Generation) September 2019 with a 60kw motor, 36.8kw with a 168 mile range. 75BHP and 90BHP TSi engines withdrawn from sale. 2020 – Vw UP Gti production restarted early 2020 (certain options removed from options list and price increased). Further information below on my thoughts on this. Covid affects production etc. 2021 2022 – Vw E-UP (2nd Generation) order book closed circa May 2022 2023 – Jan 2023 production of Up Gti ended due to order book full. October 2023 production of the Vw Up as whole ended. Vw UP GT concept car scrapped This one is a bit of a interesting story. I cannot recall exactly where i saw this (might of been the up owners club). But basically the car went to a breakers yard in holland (i think), someone went in there at the right time and saw it there and basically stripped it and reintstated all the parts on his up. It did appear for sale at one point. Got a recent link - https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/buitenkansje-koop-de-enige-echte-volkswagen-gt-up-3385027 Vw UP Gti production paused. So I knew all along this was not right. Dealers where stating wltp was the reason why the UP Gti had been withdrawn from sale. But yet at the same the Up Gti was test and PASSED said tests (See - https://www.shropshirestar.com/.../these-are-the-cars.../) and was still available to order in European countries when this was first announced. (As of 04/12/2019, the UP gti is not orderable new in any country). Also Japan had a supply of 600 3 door Up GTI’s (this I will discuss later). This makes me and I am sure other people very cheesed off with Volkswagen’s attitude towards this. Volkswagen for sure knew that the last small Volkswagen Gti was the lupo gti, by the time this car has been launched, 13 years (that’s right 13 years) had elapsed since the last new Lupo Gtis rolled off the production line, if you include 5 door Gti of a similar size (Mk5 Polo Gti), you have to go back even further to 2001 when the last MK5 Polo Gti was rolled off the production line which is 17 years ago. SEVENTEEN. Also with little market research (see howmanyleft for the Abarth 500 sales - https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93...). Vw could of easily calculated that it was potentially going to be a good seller as by the time the UP Gti was launched it only had the following rivals – Suzuki Swift Sport, Renault Twingo 110 bhp (or equivalent, I must add this is not sold in the UK anymore) and the Abarth 595. It likes having a goal completely open with no goalie and yet missing it (not the best analogy I know, but it is what I could think of). It seems extremely short sighted of Volkswagen both Market Research and Production capabilities. On the discussion point that Japan is getting 600 up gtis. Again I see this as short sighted as Japans regulations means this comes under a category a car (like the Lupo Gti) which means in Japan there is tax incentives to go for one of these over say a Polo. Which follows onto this, in Japan between 2001 to 2005 they sold nearly 2000 lupo gti’s (1000 more than the uk sold in a similar period of time) and again as with the above have been waiting a similar amount of time for a replacement. With them also not getting a 5 door version as well, this is short sighted by Volkswagen as this could be quite lucrative for them. End of Production As for the end of production. Not unexpected. The model is essentially 12 years old now. They could of made them through to 2024, but I suspect it’s a two fold reason why this is happening. 1. Factory is being retooled at present for the new Passat (estate only) 2. Euro 7 emissions regulations coming in which for small city cars are next to impossible to meet. I would not be surprised to hear that the Suzuki Swift or the Hyundai i10 or the Kia Piccanto end production soon because of this.
  7. Sounds like you have been watching a certain youtuber (you know who you are!) Anyway. The Up being discontinued is true. It already has been. Confirmed by Autocar. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-up But its some what confusing. See below dates The E-UP finished orders in 2022 The GTi finished in Jan 2023 Reamining Models October 2023 Its something i probably write in a bit more detail as the story is not clear cut. But i hope this helps.
  8. A friend of mine had a sport with a broken box. He could not find a replacement. In the end he fitted one from a 6n2 Polo gti. The ratios where a little different on 1st and 2nd the rest where ok
  9. Did see the article myself. Unfortunately these imports are sady diluting the market in some respects, don't get wrong i get the idea of importing them. But realistically at £10k that won't find a home, i would expect it more to be around £7500. The best UK example sold for over £10k on collecting cars. Sure it was not Anthracite or a blue (i supsect that might go for more if it was in the same condition) but it makes the import seem over priced. https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2005-volkswagen-lupo-gti
  10. Spotted this on piston heads. The lupo in question apprently has a famous owner. I wonder what they class as famous. The only two lupo (or arosa) for that matter was James Mays mother had a Seat Arosa (mentioned on top gear) Ksi used one recently for a video with the sidemen Ad in queston. https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/15329594
  11. Ah yes i did do it, no one else came but i was going to do it anyway. So from Junction 23 to clacket lane services went well. Did that in around 50mins, i did stop at clackets. It was after clackets it got bad. So there was congestion, then road works at Junction 10 and finally congestion around heathrow. In the end doing the full loop took 2hrs 50 mins. The delays probably added quite a bit of that time. Around 5:00 of the orignal top gear sums it up really.
  12. I am at South mimms. Funny you mention Audi TT diesel @Rich as one is parked next to me
  13. Just a little over a week until the 1st July. Who is joining me?
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