MK3 Recaro Edition

[I Love Cake]

Could someone kindly tell me the difference between the normal Sport Tech and the Recaro edition please? Apart from the obvious seats.

[I Love Cake]

A bit more research on Google suggests the only difference is the seats and a stripe. Also exclusivity as only a very small number were made. I'm not sure any of that adds to the higher price.

[JoeyD]

As you say, pretty much just the seats and a stripe. I owned a white one which did not have a stripe... loved it! The seats were great - not that different from the standard ones but the bolsters were much bigger, the centres were perforated alcantara and they were heated. The seating position was pretty spot on too!
Originally only 30 were produced in 2013 - 29 black cars and one white car, then in 2014 a further 18 or so were sold if I remember correctly - these could be had in silver, red, white and black I believe. As I understand these were destined to be Jota GT cars but they didn't do very well and so were just sold as regular Recaro editions. So very rare!

Here is my old one (I added a few bits as you can tell!):




More pics here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskvSfpWG

I absolutely loved it!

Edited by JoeyD on Tuesday 1st May 23:31

Edited by JoeyD on Tuesday 1st May 23:31

[I Love Cake]

That is lovely Joey.

In the end I went for a Kuro edition. It's moody black, which I wanted, and it ticks the limited edition boxes. One owner, 7000 miles from new. One happy cake lover.

[Podie]

JoeyD said:

As you say, pretty much just the seats and a stripe. I owned a white one which did not have a stripe... loved it! The seats were great - not that different from the standard ones but the bolsters were much bigger, the centres were perforated alcantara and they were heated. The seating position was pretty spot on too!
Originally only 30 were produced in 2013 - 29 black cars and one white car, then in 2014 a further 18 or so were sold if I remember correctly - these could be had in silver, red, white and black I believe. As I understand these were destined to be Jota GT cars but they didn't do very well and so were just sold as regular Recaro editions. So very rare!

Here is my old one (I added a few bits as you can tell!):




More pics here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskvSfpWG

I absolutely loved it!

Edited by JoeyD on Tuesday 1st May 23:31

Edited by JoeyD on Tuesday 1st May 23:31

Oh, that’s nice!

[RudolfXC]

We have a 64 reg dark silver one.

It has fog light eyebrows, different interior trim, Recaro seats, black roof, and a few other differences.