• Home
• About Us
• Advertise
• Featured Road Test Reports
• Popular Road Test Reports
• Submit A Report
• Test Drive Guide
• News

Volkswagen

Thursday, 8th of January 2009

Polls

Our test car was the VW Scirocco GT 2.0-litre TSI powered version – it comes with 200PS and has 280Nm of torque, which gives the Scirocco plenty of shove. In fact the Scirocco is based on the Golf’s underpinnings and this power plant is also available in the Golf GTi. So what do the times tell us? The Scirocco will get from zero to 62mph in 7.2 seconds and has a top speed of 146mph. The engine features direct injection technology with a turbocharger and an intercooler and is a pleasure to listen to when traveling at speed.

The VW Scirocco is what a sports hatch coupe should be – it really is a mega car. The German maker has made the Scirocco a better driver’s car than sibling Golf GTi. It is longer than the Golf GTi and the Scirocco has a greater centre of gravity enabling it to go round corners in a sporty fashion. The wide track gives the Scirocco tons of grip making it well set up for cornering, although there is a bit of body roll but you’ll not find this unless you are pushing hard. The Scirocco feels a lot more agile and responsive than the Golf GTi. VW offers a setup of different driving mode, which should reflect your mood. The Adaptive Chassis Control set-up allows you to select Comfort, Normal or Sport settings, this will adjust the stiffness of the dampers and the steering weight, making this a cracking driver’s car.

As expected the build quality is first class from the German maker. From the shut line to the plastics used on the dash, they all have a quality look and feel to them. The dashboard is reminiscent from the one seen on the Eos and while it fails to be as stylish as the Scirocco’s exterior it has a methodical look and the switchgear is well placed for the driver. However, a little more creativity would be welcomed. A three year warranty or 60,000 miles (whichever comes first) comes as standard as does 12 year body protection, three year paint protection and a one year of VW Assistance in UK and Europe in included in the package.

The Scirocco is packed with safety features. It has six airbags and ESP fitted as standard. It has also got ASR, which is a form of traction control. If there is a need to slow down suddenly, the hazard lights will activate automatically to warn other driver’s of the dangers ahead. The Scirocco has the same passive safety that VW has given the Golf and the Passat, this means that the sport coupe has a rigid body structure which has absorbing energy deformation zones to provide as much crash protection as possible to passengers. The Scirocco has an insurance group rating of group 16.

This is where the Scirocco loses out to sibling the Golf. If you have two average size adults in the front then you may forget putting anyone in the back unless they are very small children. The seats are less flexible than the more common rear bench. This means they could restrict larger objects from going in the boot. The boot has a space of 292 litres and this can be expanded to 755-litres if you fold the seats flat. Up front space is good and there are numerous cubby-holes to keep your belongings from prying eyes.

The VW Scirocco is a stunning piece of kit, which should bode well for residual values. The price list adds to the appeal, our car was the GT with the 2.0-litre engine from the Golf GTi and starts at £20,940 – that’s a competitive price for such a sporty car. However, this power plant emits 179g of the nasty CO2 emissions and on the combined cycle the maker claims the Scirocco will return 37.2mpg. All in all the Scirroco is back with a bang and at a really competitive pricing structure.

• Mazda RX-8 road test
• BMW 1-Series Coupe road test
• Audi TT Coupe road test
• Mercedes-Benz CL-Class Coupe road test
• Citroen C4 Coupe road test
• Peugeot 407 Coupe road test
• Audi TT Coupe 2.0 Tdi 170 road test

• Volkswagen Passat road test
• Volkswagen Polo road test
• Volkswagen Touareg road test
• Volkswagen Golf road test
• Volkswagen Tiguan road test
• Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion 1.9TDi road test
• Volkswagen Sharan road test
• Volkswagen Eos road test
• Volkswagen Golf Plus road test

Submit a Road Test Report

* First Name :

Surname :

* County / Country : Select county / country England Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Westmoorland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire   Scotland Aberdeenshire Angus (Forfarshire) Argyllshire Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Bute Caithness Clackmannanshire Dumbartonshire Dumfriesshire East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) Fife and Kinross Shires Hebrides Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Lothians Mid-Lothian (Edinburghshire) Moray (Elgin) and Nairn Shire Orkney Islands Peebles-shire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross and Cromarty Shires Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Shetland Islands Stirlingshire Sutherland West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) Wigtownshire   Wales Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Isle of Anglesey Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taff Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham   Northern Ireland County Antrim County Armagh County Down County Fermanagh County Londonderry County Tyrone

* Make :

* Model :

Year Of Make : Select year of make 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950

Variant :

* Star Rating : Select star rating 1 2 3 4 5

Write your report here...

* Required