ABT Sportline has become the latest tuner to ‘turn up the wick’ on the Volkswagen Scirocco - the results are sure to delight fans of Volkswagen’s latest hot-hatch.

All three engines in the range receive a boost in power thanks to simple modifications to the engine management systems. The 1.4L twin-charged engine now boasts almost 150kWs, [...]

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Click through for three official VW Scirocco videos. There are two ‘driving shots’ videos and one that gives us a look at the interior of Volkswagens new coupe, just unveiled in Geneva.

VW SCIROCCO DRIVING SHOTS VIDEO 1

VW SCIROCCO DRIVING SHOTS VIDEO 2

VW SCIROCCO INTERIOR SHOTS [...]

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Volkswagen have debuted their new ‘practical sports car’, the Scirocco coupe at this years Geneva Motor Show, 34 years after the release of the original Scirocco. The new Scirocco is largely based on the Golf platform and brings together a spacious coupe body with the latest in engine and transmission technology.

We new Scirocco first came [...]

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Remember the VW Scirocco IROC concept that we featured back in May? For those of you that don’t the image below will give you an idea what all of the excitement was about. At the time it was strongly rumoured that the Scirocco would make it to production in close to concept form…and it now [...]

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The Bug may be back…

Is the real VW Beetle going to make a comeback? According to Automobilemag sources ‘deep’ inside Volkswagen have confirmed that the company is currently working on a rear-engined water-cooled small car and it’s said to “mimic the original Beetle in both layout and purpose”.

The new design is said to have the [...]

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Breathing new life into old badges seems to be the thing to do at the moment. Citroen and Fiat are doing it with the Citroen 2CV and Fiat 500. Volkswagen gave us their new millennium take on the old Beetle and BMW resurrected the Mini.

Volkswagen’s ‘department of names’ was out to lunch when the [...]

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