Scirocco - sneak update on P13

[ben16v 0]

like the pics but that vid makes it look awful!! shame

[djmac56 0]

 

 

Has anyone seen this photo before? Sorry if it is elsewhere on the thread. Apart from looking a bit like the really old honda civic, I think this looks a lot better. I guess this is image trickery to make it look more coupe like?

[Andy665 0]

Now thats more like it and definitely a coupe - pity its Photoshopped

[dirtytorque 0]

the rear even looks a bit "corrado-ey"

 

i mite get one.

 

in 15 years when its retro. :)

[CTWG60 0]

 

 

Has anyone seen this photo before? Sorry if it is elsewhere on the thread. Apart from looking a bit like the really old honda civic, I think this looks a lot better. I guess this is image trickery to make it look more coupe like?

 

That looks much more aggressive but it isn't the same car is it?

[Tempest 0]

Hey, that's really more like it. Unfortunately that wasn't what we were presented on the stand last week, neither were the red models on either side :-(

 

Still ...

 

Those door handles are also a no-go IMHO, much more liked the ones on the Iroc.

 

Tempest

[Walesy 0]

That'll be a potatoshop, unfortunately :confused:

[Tempest 0]

Found out why I'm quite taken by the Alfa Brera, if I had to buy a brandnew coupe (not a hatch like the new Scirocco): It was designed by .......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yup, Giugiaro :-)

 

Goes to show that the man once again has demonstrated taste, certainly if the ladies on his stand in Geneva were anything to go by. They were certainly some inspiration :lol:

 

Tempest

[Jim 1]

That photoshopped one looks hard as nails!

[yorkshireone 0]

Looks like its gonna be on 5th gear tonight....

[Jim 1]

Did the old Scirocco / Corrado get a mention in the feature?

[coolrado 0]

yep he said the rear headroom was just as crap as the old scirocco :lol:

[Sonicriot13 0]

What good things did they say about the new Scirocco?... :D

[coolrado 0]

that it was cheaper than the golf gti, and he liked the rear headrests, that was about it really.

[Sonicriot13 0]

Oh, well, rear headrests are important things these days....

[Andy665 0]

Sonicriot13 - rear headrests are indeed important nowadays - they do many things but can't quite manage the feat of turning a hatchback into a coupe :D

[junkie 0]

 

I am a bit surprised at the level of negative feeling towards this car. I think you all just got your hopes up too much. :lol: You'll learn. Appreciate things for what they are. Don't worry about what they could have been.

 

Just for the record i do like the car alot but not as a sports coupe/new scirocco

[Sonicriot13 0]

S0onicriot13 - rear headrests are indeed important nowadays - they do many things but can't quite manage the feat of turning a hatchback into a coupe :D

 

:lol: You've got me there! But come on, somebody has to stick up for it....

 

 

I am a bit surprised at the level of negative feeling towards this car. I think you all just got your hopes up too much. :lol: You'll learn. Appreciate things for what they are. Don't worry about what they could have been.

 

Just for the record i do like the car alot but not as a sports coupe/new scirocco

 

I'd agree with you on that. It's not a coupe at all. And the idea of it being some spiritual successor to the Corrado as I've heard it described in one article is a bit weird frankly. But I still think it will be an awesome car.

[junkie 0]

But I still think it will be an awesome car.

 

Totally agree there modern cars usually are from good well respected manufacturers.

 

I would have 1.

 

Skipped a few pages when i posted previously then read them and that photoshop is proper hardcore man.

[Andy665 0]

Agreed that it will probably be a really good car to drive and a good ownership proposition but the frustration for me is that it could be so much more - I wish that Volkswagen had half the design guts of the Bangle era BMW or Quement era Renault.

 

Whilst I don't rate the Megane, it proves that taking a design risk can pay off commercially, Volkswagen seems paralysed by fear in terms of design, much more so than any other big manufacturer

[Sonicriot13 0]

Volkswagen seems paralysed by fear in terms of design, much more so than any other big manufacturer

 

I don't know about that. I just saw the final production model of the Hyundai Genesis Coupe and it's lost all it's rad bonnet scoops and it looks as though there won't be a V8 after all... :( But it still looks incredible if a little plain at first. You have to study it and notice all the finer details to appreciate it which is way different from the loud in your face orange concept. I guess they just have to go with what they think is going to sell to the most people. They wouldn't survive if they didn't.

 

 

[junkie 0]

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[Sonicriot13 0]

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At least it's actually a coupe.... :wink:

[Andy665 0]

The front end of the Hyundai is very Lexus IS250'ish - I don't "get" the kink in the window line at all either.

 

Definitely a coupe though :D

[Sonicriot13 0]

The front end of the Hyundai is very Lexus IS250'ish

 

I agree, it is. But notice how the front end has been totally toned down just like the Iroc. I think it's a symptom of all manufacturers, until you get to the likes of Pagani of course....