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.
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.
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