Used Car of the Day: 1992 Volkswagen Corrado SLC

by Tim Healey

Published: October 16th, 2024

used car of the day 1992 volkswagen corrado slc

Today's Used Car of the Day is a 1992 Volkswagen Corrado SLC that's had a lot of work done.

This one is a five-speed manual with 78,000 miles on it. It's been repainted recently and the seller says everything works. The car has A/C, a spoiler, sunroof, cruise control, and a long list of replacement parts.

You can view the list of work here.

This VW is based in New Jersey and the asking price is $29,000. Click here to see more.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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SCE to AUX 1 hour ago
Beautiful car. Rare does not equal valuable, even in great condition. Also, I never understand how a fun car like this accumulates only 2500 miles a year. That's like a couple hours per weekend over the life of the car.

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- 28-Cars-Later 18 minutes ago
  First, second, or both owners didn't use it as a daily or their daily routine wasn't very far from their homes. Then as it aged it sat more often than it was driven, possibly because it was turned into a Sunday/weekend "fun" car and kept out of NJ winters. I put somewhere between 3000-3500 miles on my C70 this year, and it will likely be similar every year till the Planet of the Apes.
  
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Carson D 11 minutes ago
I wanted one of these when the VR6 replaced the G60 engine. I liked everything about it except for the mouse operated seatbelts. Then AutoWeek had one for an extended test, which may have only been 12 months. They basically described it as loosening up to the point that it felt used up in what wouldn't even pass for an oil change interval today. I decided to stick with BMWs until every model was better than the next.

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Carson D I wanted one of these when the VR6 replaced the G60 engine. I liked everything about it except for the mouse operated seatbelts. Then AutoWeek had one for an extended test, which may have only been 12 months. They basically described it as loosening up to the point that it felt used up in what wouldn't even pass for an oil change interval today. I decided to stick with BMWs until every model was better than the next.
28-Cars-Later The 5D chess move here for Carlos the Lesser would be to p!ss off the UAW in order to force a wildcat strike somewhere leading to a chain of events where US Chrysler implodes in order to then liquidate it/part of it. Then you get to blame General Custer for the implosion and partially walk away from the larger PSA etc. problems at least in the US (which don't appear to be solvable).
MaintenanceCosts Exterior dimensions for the US version?
Jalop1991 Will VW put even a fraction of the marketing onto this that Ford did when they re-lanched the Bronco? If not, that's sad.
Kcflyer nada