Volkswagen Scirocco

Vehicle Overview

The Volkswagen Scirocco: While engaged in the development of the VW Golf, designer Giorgio Giugiaro came up with the idea of creating a sports coupe using the same platform. He got in touch with the german coachbuilder Karmann, and presented the first drafts of the coupe to the VW management as a successor to the VW Karmann-Ghia Type 14. For economic reasons, the board of directors refused to finance the development and the project, so that Karmann took over alone the entire investment for the construction of the vehicle. Giugiaro designed the bodywork, which had some similarities with the Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint, which had been designed by Giugiaro a short time before. Karmann is committed to the production of the Volkswagen Scirocco I and II models at its Osnabrück plant. In agreement with the VW group board of directors, the vehicle was given the name Scirocco. The name refers to a warm wind that blows south from the Sahara towards the Mediterranean.