[Martyn]

Remember the r32 Prototype with the big flared wheel arches??[]

Anyone got a photo of it??

Cheers

Martyn

 

[Chris]

I do believe it's Mr Fly who has one from the VW Museum in Germany!

 

[Martyn]

Hopefully he will pop along later then and post it!

 

[Chris]

Oh, and that would be 'GTI' and not 'Marty Mc' of the Fly variety []

 

[Martyn]

LOL... I gathered that Chris!!!

 

[Tabs]

From the gallery:

http://www.uk-mkivs.net/gallery/photos/11/13.aspx

More here - http://www.uk-mkivs.net/gallery/albums/11.aspx?page=2

 

[Martyn]

Cheers Tabs...

 

[Gti Fly]

Here you go martyn. You can see the front bumper is longer and more rounded, and you can also see the slightly flared out wheel arches (ala Rallye), and also the blended side skirts

 

[Martyn]

cheers jase. Thats excellent.

I will save them to my hard-drive.

 

[Stewart]

Wow, was that really a prototype?

 

[Gti Fly]

Yeah, that was the test mule.

It had an Anni interior, and recaro seats, flared wheel arches (about an inch wider), longer front bumper (final production car's is squarer and flatter)

Can't remember who made the exhaust pipe on it (it certainly wasn't sebring, like production R32's were)

It had SuperTurismo OZ wheels

This particular R32 was the one they pounded around the Nurburgring to fine tune the chassis set up, so it's basically one of the Daddies!

 

[Sem]

Wow, really like the blended skirts and flared arches on that! They should have kept that design IMO.

 

[Gti Fly]

Yeah flared arches really should have been put into production! I really love the old Rallyes because of this!

 

[TigerStyle]

The flared arches just make it look fatter than it already is!

 

[Royster]

Yeah! sweet!

 

[pope1]

Very nice, probably too expensive to produce like that though.

 

[SoftailPat]

Luvverly car - I wonder who decides to change what looks like a real dream of a car. Love the flared arches and the wheels.

 

[graeme86]

If you look carefully you will also notice the proper Brembo 4 pot calipers on the front, which also got canned in production.[]

 

[Foxy]

Accountants are to blame for most things.......they can take the heat for this one not getting into the public domain!

 

[pope1]

It might have made it but perhaps the price would have been greater than what the marketing people said customers were prepared to pay. I often blame the bean-counters for a lot of things but maybe it has more to do with the state of the market in general??