The VW Scirocco Might Be Killed Off After The Current Generation Ends
The VW Scirocco is a fine looking car, but it’s not exactly cutting edge. Peel away the coupe-ish hatchback body, and you’ll find the ancient gizzards of the Mk5 Golf. So, it’s well overdue a replacement, but unfortunately it’s looking like that might not happen.
Autocar reports that at VW’s Annual Session, the subject of replacing the Scirocco and Mk6 Golf-related Beetle hard top was raised. The response wasn’t a particularly promising one. VW brand board member Arno Antlitz is quoted as saying: “The Beetle and Scirocco are representatives of an emotional and appealing class of vehicles, but it is not always about continuing cars from one generation to the next.”
Both the tin top Beetle and the Scirocco are poor sellers for VW, so it’d be understandable for the firm to axe the pair as it seeks to cut costs and streamline in the stupidly expensive wake of the dieselgate scandal. The considerably more popular convertible Beetle is understood to be safe.
Antlitz reckons that the incoming Arteon saloon and the production versions of the I.D. cars will plug the ‘emotional’ gap left by any Scirocco and/or Beetle departure.
This new comes just a week after it was reported that the Group was mulling over a sale of the Ducati brand - owned by Audi subsidiary Lamborghini.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Crap, theyre gonna kill off the only Beetle I liked.
i’m so sad. i always thought the scirocco was so cool and now it faces the same fate as the yeti. they both never came to the u.s. but when i got a chance to see them when i went to the u.k forever ago they looked so cool. especially the scirocco, that car was beautiful. now v.w. is filling in their line up with heartless cars with about no styling. thanks a lot, non car people. this is what you wanted.
I looked up the sale figures and they sold about an average of 11.000 cars a year in five years. They sold 3 times more Golf IN A MONTH, so I can understand. I really like the Scirocco I hate to see it go , but maybe VW will learn from their mistakes and they will make a more sportier car not just simply swap the hatchback style with a coupe one.
i’m worried that VW may lose the quality feeling of a VW product due to these cost-cutting measures.