what do ya know about the concept-colour Mk3's?

[vwvinny]

ive been lookin at a yellow concept-colour vr6 on carsales.com, but i cant find any decent info about the australian versions...

they are just a bright-painted vr6 with matching trim, right?

are they worth more than a standard vr6, or are they worth less, because of the... uhhh..."unusual" paint colours?

I LOVE the green concept colour, but apparently only 100 or so made it to oz...

can anyone help me out?

[The_Hawk]

IIRC they are in limited edition colours with coloured inserts on the seats which I believe are heated. They came with different wheels too. Otherwise they are about the same as a normal VR6.

[Tim]

as above mechanically the same the differents are mostly to the trim. The standout being seats are proper recaros with the massive side bolsters. Wheels are a 15" 6 spoke design

Id say they are probably worth a little bit more than a standard VR6. A lot of the ones I have seen about are pretty tired looking though. Any colour concept specific parts will be worth a packet to replace no doubt. Thats if you can get them.

[h100vw]

The only one I'd have would be Black. They did them in the UK with GTI and GTI 16V engines, no VR6s. The wheels are Solitudes IIRC.
Gavin

[Mrk_Mickey]

Oh and just to add, only ~20 made it to this country - 5 colours - red, blue, green, yellow, black

[MattyT]

... and I own one of them

As it's already been mentioned the big differences between a regular vr6 and a colour concept are:
Sweet heated front seats in two tone leather matching the paint job that are very buckety
Vibrant paint job
BBS 6-spoke rims
"colour concept" badges
smoked rear tail lights

I'm guessing it was a kind of run-out model thing like the mk5 pirelli gti's are. But that doesnt take away from them at all. Still a great car!

One thing worth mentioning is that I get *loads* of compliments about the colour & trim, especially from chicks. They LOVE it!!

[Mrk_Mickey]

20 of each colour that is,

Are you sure dude? I thought I remembered old threads saying like 5 of each and stuff..

[VR6man]

450 VR6 Colour Concepts were made in total, 100 of them came to Australia . 20 Jazz Blue , 20 Diamond Black, 20 Flash Red , 20 Yellow and 20 Salsa Green.
I think they had silver instruments dials.

[MattyT]

Mine doesnt. Bog standard dash.

[jettapilot]

20 of each colour that is,

I've driven a mates quite a bit and those seats are glorious I have warned him that I'm going to swap them with mine many times. They are heated, but whether or not anyone in oz wants that is a different story.

The smoked rear lights aren't colour concept specific, but are to the VR6 range.

Very cool and worth a look if the money and condition is right

There's a stack of threads where people have asked about the colour concept so have a bit of a search too

DO NOT underestimate the desirability of heated seats, even in Australia. I'm in Sydney and I really appreciate the heated seats on cool winter mornings. I know there are many members here who feel the same.