More rumours about the Volkswagen Scirocco from Auto Bild: it will arrive in 2008, with the 1.4 TSI 170 hp engine it will reach 230 km/h and it will cost about 25.000 €.

The design of the new Scirocco will be coordinated by Murat Günak, with an eye to Giugiaro’s original Scirocco.

The new Scirocco will be built on the Golf VI platform, which will differ from that of the Golf V mainly in the rear axle and in the door attachments, to lower the costs for volume production (VW hope it can save between 500 and 1,250 € / car).

Initially the Scirocco will mount the 1.4 TSI twin-charger engine in two versions (140 and 170 hp), the 2.0 TFSI (200 hp) and the 170 hp version of the 2.0 TDI turbodiesel engine. Later, in 2009, the Scirocco might get one or both of Volkswagen’s VR6s (surely the Golf R32’s 3.2 with 250 hp, maybe also the 3.6 with 280 hp). Last but not least, there’s talk of a Scirocco R20, che which might mount a 2.0 liters engine outputting 300 hp, either a bi-turbo or a twin-charger (there’s some confusion about this engine, maybe it’s the same one that is being bandied about for the sporty version of the next Audi TT).

You might want to take a look at Auto Bild’s image gallery: it has a series of artist’s impressions of the upcoming Golf variants.

As Auto Bild says, now it’s Ford’s and GM’s turn, to resurrect their coupes from the seventies, and complete again the triad of german coupes: Ford Capri, Opel Manta and VW Scirocco …

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