The Volkswagen design team created a wagon-coupé based on flawless sports car fundamentals. This resulted in a side profile that had the potential to imbue this new Volkswagen too with a status that goes beyond class distinctions. Volkswagen Scirocco generations I and II wrote history as the most successful Volkswagen hatchback coupé of all time, it offers pure driving pleasure, a new powerful design, high-end technologies such as DCC adaptive chassis control and the new 7-speed DSG dual clutch transmission. Nearly thirty-four years after the debut of the original, a brand-new Volkswagen Scirocco is set to revive the compact coupe segment. The estimated base price for scirocco is $39,500.
Using the original, successful blueprint of two doors, four seats and a front engine driving the front wheels, the new car has it all and, like its predecessor, sets the trend for future VW vehicles. The third Scirocco is the first Volkswagen to sport the front end design of a new era. At the front, the wide bonnet is fronted by mean-looking headlight clusters and twin narrow grilles. Narrow is an ongoing theme as demonstrated by the windows that flick up towards the rear end emphasised by the high shoulder-line and the roof that slopes gently at the back, ending in a spoiler. It makes the car look long and purposeful however, it is the rear end that is distinctive and attracts most attention.
Inside, the Scirocco is just as focused and blatantly sporty, with room for four adults in full-sized sports, almost bucket-type, seats, which are very well contoured and supportive. Those in the front have manual height adjustment, an anti-whiplash design and a tilt and slide function to allow people into the rear seats – just mind your head on the cant-rail.
At the market introduction Volkswagen will offer the Volkswagen Scirocco with two TSI engines (118 kW / 160 PS and 147 kW / 200 PS). Shortly thereafter, a TDI (common rail turbo-diesel, 103 kW / 140 PS) and another TSI (90 kW / 122 PS) will be added to the engine lineup. Decisive here is the fact that even the 122-PS base engine offers a maximum of torque at extremely low engine speeds (200 Newton-meter starting at 1,500 rpm). Its average fuel consumption of 6.1 liters per 100 kilometers shows considerable restraint.
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