Scirocco UPDATE

[topher]

£20,500? So 2 grand cheaper than a DSG Golf GTI?

I realise thats just a preliminary, but could certainly put a cat amongst the pigeons

[jv]

Scirocco with DSG £21,800 est
Golf GTI DSG £22,145

No pigeons included.

[vw_sales]

No mate the £ 20,500 will be the manual smallest petrol engine.

so the 1.4 tsi engine.

The dsg will be approx £ 1300 more.

so £ 21800 1.4 tsi 160 bhp dsg.

or £ 22145 for 2.0 gti dsg.

£ 345 pounds differance.

[jv]

So that goes against what you said in your first post of how the 200bhp will start at 20,500?

[Komenda]

I'm still struggling to see where this car fits. It's to similar to be a different option to a 3dr Golf and its not a performance/prestige model as it certainly isn't going to be quicker than a GTI/R32.

VW should of gone the whole hog and decided one way or the other what this car was meant to be, by either making it an affordable coupe (and not styled it like a hatchback) or made it a performance model.

VW, I am confused 

[RedRobin]

I'm still struggling to see where this car fits. It's to similar to be a different option to a 3dr Golf and its not a performance/prestige model as it certainly isn't going to be quicker than a GTI/R32.

VW should of gone the whole hog and decided one way or the other what this car was meant to be, by either making it an affordable coupe (and not styled it like a hatchback) or made it a performance model.

VW, I am confused 

....I see your point but with the same GTI 2.0T FSI engine isn't it going to be at least as fast as the Mk5 GTI?

It would appear to 'split' or compete with the 3-door GTI market though. It even has foldable rear seats!

[jv]

Slightly cheaper, slightly quicker, more 'unusual'?

[topher]

wonder where they lost 10bhp from the 1.4 tsi to make it only 160.. must be used up to power the blowdryer and straightener attachments

[vw_sales]

so it does copy and paste from vw

Should have read it properly.

My bad.

[Kermit]

What happened to the IROC style q's- suspect NCAP meant that grill had to go :-(  Torn on this one - was expecting something a bit special not this - I cannot see this competing with the TT (or put it this way I can't see a MK2 TT owner chopin in for one of these and thats the market they should be going at, plus  BMW Z4, Porsche Cayman - not Hyundai), for me this is a poors mans alternative - well it's not even a coupe its a hatch back (it even has a wiper on ther rear window!).  I just hope for the later model releases they lump in a higher PSI engine, quattro and some aggressive styling.  If this is the new look and feel of VW, how different will this be to the  MK6 Golf, apart from shorter and not available in 5DR! Does anyone in VW have any balls to try and compete with Audi (there must be an element of sibling rivalry)

Saying that I would love to test drive one (not the 1.4!) and see it in the flesh before commenting further - as I could totally change my mind  but at the moment my money is sat firmly on a TTS