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New Scirocco

  • 17-08-2006 9:13am
    #1
    pburns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭


    They're resurrecting the old name. (For my generation the Corrado was just as evocative - reputation as one of the best FWD handlers of all time).

    Anyhows what do ye people think? I 'want' to like it but to my eyes it looks like it's not long enough or something...

    http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/202313/reborn_scirocco_is_go.html


Comments

  • #2
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,132 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Nice. Pity it won't arrive until 2008. It might not look as fresh anymore then...

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  • #3
    Fey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    Why can't they let the greats rest in piece?


  • #4
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Fey! wrote:
    Why can't they let the greats rest in piece?

    Seconded. Although the GT40 was a great job!


  • #5
    Fey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    Good point, SC. But more often than not they are, IMO, disasters.

    Look at the new beetle and the BMW Mini....


  • #6
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    I want to like it too - but to me it looks more like a Passat Coupe. Which is all it is really. It doesn't have the 'flair' of the old Sirocco.

    I'll reserve my final judgement until I see it in the flesh.
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  • #7
    maidhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭maidhc


    unkel wrote:
    Nice. Pity it won't arrive until 2008. It might not look as fresh anymore then...

    2 years to weld a roof onto the Eos?

    ...and call it a Sirocco to help it sell?


  • #8
    Mike2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Mike2006


    They are bringing out a Passat coupe too in 2008.

    It will be a 4-door though. Something of a similar shape/layout of the Mercedes CLS CLass.

    That could look good..


  • #9
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I kinda like it. Its the same approach they took with the Corrado really, it resembles the Jettas/Passats of its day in much the same way that this new Scirroco resembles its siblings.


  • #10
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    it looks nothing like its namesake at all.


  • #11
    Seanie M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Seanie M


    It looks more like a sporty Passat/Bora then a revamped Scirocco.


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  • #12
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    I hate it and I can't see too many selling when they have the Golf GTi


  • #13
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    It looks like a reborn Corrado with that high back end. Anyway its good news for those who still have a good example the proper Scirocco as interest will be tweaked by the new model.

    Mike.


  • #14
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Mike2006 wrote:
    They are bringing out a Passat coupe too in 2008.

    It will be a 4-door though. Something of a similar shape/layout of the Mercedes CLS CLass.

    That could look good..
    Any pics of this "coupe"? Sounds kinda interesting.
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  • #15
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    67736.jpg
    in case the image is hotlink protected or something: http://bilder.autobild.de/bilder/1/67736.jpg

    67737.jpg
    http://bilder.autobild.de/bilder/1/67737.jpg


  • #16
    Lex Luthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭Lex Luthor


    Stephen wrote:
    67736.jpg
    in case the image is hotlink protected or something: http://bilder.autobild.de/bilder/1/67736.jpg

    67737.jpg
    http://bilder.autobild.de/bilder/1/67737.jpg
    That looks ok, but I think a 4dr coupe from VW is pointless. People will buy the 3 series coupe before this one


  • #17
    IrishRover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭IrishRover


    crosstownk wrote:
    I want to like it too - but to me it looks more like a Passat Coupe. Which is all it is really. It doesn't have the 'flair' of the old Sirocco.
    Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. This ain't no Scirocco! :mad:
    maidhc wrote:
    2 years to weld a roof onto the Eos?

    ...and call it a Sirocco to help it sell?
    PMSL, exactly!


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