VW to produce next generation 'Corrado'
Minor classic coupé to be resurrected?
Autocar reports this week that VW is at last to replace the Corrado, its well-regarded Golf Mk.II-based coupé which was discontinued in 1994, and is also in the throes of designing a roadster.
However, the Corrado's replacement won't be a coupé but a four-door car -- which the report confusingly refers to as a coupé. It will sit on the same platform as VW's just-announced soft-roader platform, the Beduin -- think RAV4 -- and will share it with the next version of the Audi TT.
Details are few and far between but it's been engineered to accept either front or rear-wheel dive, and could be powered by a host of engines, including VW's new 280bhp 3.6-litre V6. It's said the car will be able to seat four in comfort. Not much else is definite, as the vehicle is in the early stages of its development.
Roadster
Known to insiders as the Concept R, this will be designed by Murat Gunak, who's credited with the Mercedes SLK. VW boss Berndt Pischetsrieder has said the MX5-rivalling car will definitely be built and may get a rear-mid engine.
It's likely to be powered by VW's 2.0-litre four-pot unit and the 3.6-litre V6, but the hard-top folding roof shown at auto shows recently will give way to a soft-top, saving weight and costs. The car has yet to be officially signed off.
article said:
Details are few and far between....
which translates as 'this is just speculation'. About this time last year the same Autocar told us that the roadster would be an all new 2 seater rear drive Corrado (issue dated 04/05/04), 100% of fact! Now according to some german magazines this thing is going to be called a Scirocco, and the 'Corrado' is infact the concept C? I retain my scepticism, but if they do make it, chances are Leosayer will be correct.
I also take issue with 'minor classic'....
>> Edited by mervynp on Wednesday 23 March 12:44
mervynp said:
About this time last year the same Autocar told us that the roadster would be an all new 2 seater rear drive Corrado (issue dated 04/05/04)
Indeed. See this thread for more details.
duncanthemad said:
discontinued in 1995 and borrows as much from the Passat as it does from the Mk2 Golf GTi
You're correct on both counts.
But as with so many things in the automative world, the result can be greater than the sum of its parts (TVR being a prime example - my Chimaera has a number of parts from much humbler cars).
>> Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 23 March 14:02
m-five said:
stooz said:
Mmmmm corrado G60....
Mmmmm corrado V6
Mmmmmmm Storm....
Why? It was just a run-out model with nothing special added!
It had a few bits added and they were the last ever produced which makes them kinda special. I think so anyway and I'm on my second Storm...
). That was great fun!
Now there is the New Beetle with a modern engine.
And it's boring.
What I want to say is that if they build a 4-door 'coupe' on a soft-roader platform thus trying to create a modern Corrado, that just will not work!
Kick the marketing guys in the **se and start building decent cars again!
Dear mr. Volkswagen, excite us with something that isn't completely useless or plain stupid!
Or build something completely useless but make it exciting.
Am I still making sense?
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