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    Default Want a 550-hp AWD Volkswagen Scirocco? Save up $150k and move to Canada



    Ask us what Euro-only model we'd import to the States and the Volkswagen Scirocco would be near the top of the list. It combines everything we love about the GTI into a more attractive, racy package and, just like it's boxy brethren, it's packed with tuning potential.

    HPA has been at the forefront of VW and Audi modifications for years, and the Canadian tuning firm has worked out a deal with V-Dub to import a handful of Sciroccos into British Colombia each year to finally offer North American gearheads the hot hatch we deserve. But naturally, they're not leaving good-enough alone.

    Although the Scirocco tops out in R trim with a 265-horsepower 2.0-liter TSI four-cylinder, HPA will swap in a fully-built 3.2-liter V6 complete with a pair of Garrett H25 turbochargers, along with all-wheel drive. The result is the FT565, good for 550 hp and 500 pound-feet of torque. Bump it up to the Stage 2 package and torque swells to 600 lb-ft and the 0-60 time drops to 3.4 seconds, with a quarter-mile time of 11.3 seconds. Top speed? HPA claims 200 mph... in a hatchback.

    In addition to the engine mods, the stock brakes have been swapped out in favor of 14-inch, eight-piston units in front and 13-inch rotors out back, with 19-inch aluminum BBS coated in Dunlop SP Sport Maxx tires.

    As you'd expect, such a conversion and importation doesn't come cheap: HPA only plans to build 10 FT565 Sciroccos each year, at a cost of $150,000 a piece. And no, there's no word on whether the Scirocco will be available in the U.S. (or Australia)

    [Source: HPA via Automobile via Autoblog]
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    Time to buy you lotto ticket peoples!

    I would so get one of these if I had the money...,Nissan GTR????...boring!!!!!

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    How wild is that little monster.

    Even in stock trim its attractive, but pushing those numbers it is basically a supercar.

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    Mmmmm 550HP

    I'd buy that! Won't be too many on the roads, more exclusive than a Ferrari Italia, yet almost as practical as a Golf.

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    HPA/HGP are dear as poison!!! But their work is second to none!

    Hot car

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    Quote Originally Posted by shakespeare View Post
    Mmmmm 550HP

    I'd buy that! Won't be too many on the roads, more exclusive than a Ferrari Italia, yet almost as practical as a Golf.
    Or as practical as a regular Scirocco

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    ugly looking thing all over ther place over here

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    Quote Originally Posted by tenchu View Post
    ugly looking thing all over ther place over here
    i agree

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    that is PHAT!!!!!

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    Looks fierce! But judging by the picture its suspension is rock solid and its way too low to drive on NSW roads

    Be a monster on the track tho

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    Ohhhh, why cant $$$$ not be an issue for me ! ! I want 2 of these white and black

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    Talking Only 2 micheal !!!!!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by LILZLR View Post
    Ohhhh, why cant $$$$ not be an issue for me ! ! I want 2 of these white and black
    Yeeeh mate perhaps I will tell Horst I want one as a company car seeing he is a VW fanatic
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nirvandan View Post
    Nissan GTR????...boring!!!!!
    Wash your mouth out with soap!!!!!!
    Not Gone...just "busy"
    Quote Originally Posted by Street Road Laino
    It's not blue screen of death Kent, it's Auora Blue screen of death

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    ...and it record time they are becoming as common as the other skylines

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    What an awesome machine!...and Col...keep dreaming mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nirvandan View Post
    ...and it record time they are becoming as common as the other skylines
    And the MPS is any different
    Not Gone...just "busy"
    Quote Originally Posted by Street Road Laino
    It's not blue screen of death Kent, it's Auora Blue screen of death

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    Yup I dont see as many MPS as I see skylines

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    Talking Let me dream timbo !!!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by DISIMS3 View Post
    What an awesome machine!...and Col...keep dreaming mate
    HEEEAAHHH Timbo I can't drive so at least you can let me dream meeeeenee
    Col

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nirvandan View Post
    Yup I dont see as many MPS as I see skylines
    Skylines are nearly as common as ass holes Im so over them I'm with Al boring !!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by YOU LOSE View Post
    Yeeeh mate perhaps I will tell Horst I want one as a company car seeing he is a VW fanatic
    Col
    Do it !
    "THE PATH OF THE GTI-R IS BESET WITH PERIL BY THE INJUSTICES OF THE SPEED CAMERA AND THE TYRANNY OF OTHER DRIVERS. BLESSED IS HE WHO OVERTAKES THE EVO & STI THROUGH THE VALLEY OF HAIRPIN TURNS, FOR HE IS TRULY HIS CAR'S TUNER AND THE FINDER OF LOST HORSEPOWER. . . AND WE SHALT STRIKE DOWN WITH GREAT BOOST AND FURIOUS ACCELERATION ON WHOEVER DOTH ATTEMPT TO OBSTRUCT OR DELAY OUR OVERTAKING. . .
    BMW M3 Evo Coming to the R stable soon. . .

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    that looks ****ing badass

    looks groovy with an R8 front on it!

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