The ?Roc Has Stopped: A Brief History of the Now Dead Volkswagen Scirocco
It turns out you can stop the ?Roc: The iconic Volkswagen Scirocco has gone out of production. “The Scirocco cannot be ordered with individual specifications anymore. But you can purchase vehicles already built,” VW’s German website now says.
And thus ends the era of sporty front-wheel-drive coupes at VW. It began in 1974 with the first-generation Scirocco, and more than half a million units of that ultralight, angular coupe were built until it was replaced in 1981. (Interesting aside: A shooting-brake version of the first model created by the Hanover-based dealer Nordstadt, called the Sciwago, previewed the look of the final Scirocco.)
For the second generation, the company dismissed a rather conservative design proposal by the Italian firm Giugiaro, which penned the first Scirocco. Instead, VW selected an in-house design, which was more forward-looking but took some getting used to: “A pencil up front, an Easter egg in the rear,” a colleague complained back then in reference to its low, thin front profile and capacious hatch area. A Karmann-proposed targa version never made it into production. Work on a successor to the second-generation Scirocco didn’t quite go according to plan. The new car got so advanced and costly that VW decided to launch it in 1988 as a separate model called the Corrado; it was sold alongside the Scirocco II for three years until the Scirocco nameplate was discontinued in 1992. Initially available only with the...
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