Bit of history on the Corrado, it is a Mk3 Rocco

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Here's a god in the Roccoworld, Doug T from the States, who's mad Mk1 Rocco was featured in one of the UK classic car mags recently :shock: .

 

This guy can draw cars or what? Just have a look at all his design studies of what could be a good new Scirocco rather than that abortion that Auto Express and other Springer Verlag publications have revealed.

 

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2454077

 

Especially:

 

"Yes the Corrado and Scirocco have roots as the same 53 but the Corrado went in the wrong direction for a Scirocco. The name change was needed to make a new upper price category.

The Scirocco MK2 was going to be discontinued but the MK3 was way too expensive. The Corrado (MK3 Scirocco) was developed in-house at the same time as the B3 Passat. When the boys at Wolsburg saw the cost over run a call was made to Karmann. The boys at Karmann had to make the final set (#3) of tooling for the MK2 (88-92). Note the 88 Corrado 16V was slower than the MK2 Scirocco 16V so they had to drop the MK2 16V to help sell the Corrado. The G60 was no great improvement other than interior trim, fit and ride comfort. The G60 had some top end but the extra weight hurt transitions and 0-60. The Corrado forced the Scirocco GTII into production till 92... about the same time the VR6 came out. The US lost the Scirocco for good in 89 (88 was the last year). We only got one year of the new tooling. Scirocco sales were slow in 88 as news of the Corrado came out. The Corrado was late getting the VR6 but that made the car worth it. The MK2 Scirocco was a band-aid upgrade on the A1 chassis. The Corrado was the transition between the A2 and the A3 chassis with some B3 mixed in. The Corrado was VWs new 90's direction and the end of the tin Rabbit past. Note the Cabi was lost near the same time as the MK2 Scirocco. "

 

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[Musicman 0]

Pretty well how I summarised it on No-Rice in November... ;)

[Geordie 0]

Wow simpley wow.

[Walesy 0]

Great stuff!

 

8)

[Trig 0]

King-Rocco himself...! 8)

[Yandards 0]

Nice.

 

I just hope VW are listening.

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Pretty well how I summarised it on No-Rice in November... ;)

 

Well, that should be common knowledge amongst Roccodrivers :-)

 

I had already read that some years ago on Doug's own homepages on the web, however. But he can't state these facts often enough, as there are always new-comers to the Rocco and Rado, for whom this is interesting stuff :-)

 

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