The Magnum G60 Is A Super-Rare VW Corrado Shooting Brake That’ll Cost You $50k
Is there a cooler body style than that of the shooting brake? We don’t think so, but in the last few decades the format has been criminally underused by manufacturers. An exception to that rule could have come from VW in the form of the car you see here: the Magnum Sport Kombi, but it wasn’t to be.
This brilliant oddity came about when the German manufacturer commissioned a firm called Marold Automobili GmbH to turn the Corrado coupe into a shooting brake, and it proceeded to create two gloriously boxy prototypes. Both were built with the supercharged ‘G60’ four-cylinder engine, giving 158bhp and a 0-60mph time of just over eight seconds. The plan was to follow these two up with a limited production run, something that never happened.
Happily, the pair of prototypes weren’t just stuffed into the corner of a museum, and both have just come up for sale via Long Island dealer Lux Sport. Both are wearing Borbet rims, one with five spoke examples, and the other with a more BBS-style look. The former car is showing 13,000 kilometres on the clock, and the latter just 8000.
Want one of these unusual pieces of motoring history? You’d better have a decent chunk of disposable income ready - both are up for $49,995 apiece.
Source: Lux Sport via World Car Fans
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Id tottaly have this one instead…for that price it better pass the emissions test AND fix it’s own engine
That is actually nicely done!
Golf-corra-satti? :D
That looks really cool!
audi 80 taillights
Dude those borbets are awesome
Wtf guys ? Audi 80 taillights
I think i know the source of inspiration for that car.
Or this (VW Fox wagon)
If you like stuff like that you should google for Artz. A former german company that build cars like the Porsche 944 shooting brake and the Porsche 928 shooting brake. Also put the Body of a golf on a Porsche 928 and stuff like that.
Sooo, you take a Corrado, slice it open, weld roof from a Polo and put in a lights from Audi 80. Than sell it for a hefty Profit
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bdMXDRW_htg/TMvoD0xpG8I/AAAAAAAAApc/lPr_WSM18jQ/s1600/05.jpg
When u like corrado but audi 80 is life.
And this folks, is what happens when a Polo and a Corrado have a child.
I remember when orchid euro imported these cars a few years ago, they hadn’t been started in nearly a decade and had to pushed onto the boat to get them to the US, the guy who bought them had them restored into running and driving order once they hit land in the States, it’s sad to see them up for sale again but I hope an enthusiast picks them up and shows them off rather than keep them stuffed away