Rolled-up suit sleeves are optional
Usually carmakers wait until dated models are gathering dust at the docks before they start with the special editions, but clearly not VW. The Scirocco may still be fresh-faced and innocent but this hasn’t stopped the marketing people at Volkswagen wheeling out the ‘Collector’s Edition’.
The company chose the Essen Motorshow in Germany to announce the new car, which is based on the 200bhp 2.0-litre TSI range-topper. It comes in ‘Oryx White’ and sports new 19” polished aluminium wheels. Inside the seats and door cards have been trimmed in white leather and the car gains a few extras, such as the radio-navigation system RNS 510 with Dynaudio sound and the bi-xenon headlights. Eighties fanatics, it’s your lucky day…