Classic green VR6 Corrado Storm for sale

Very few UK-only special editions are as evocative as the run-out Corrado from forever ago...

By PH Staff / Thursday, 9 April 2026 / Loading comments

Remember back when everyone used to call out the Corrado as a cheap-to-buy future modern classic? It made sense: nice to look at, lovely to drive, well-built, plentiful enough to be affordable but not two-a-penny - and all of it underwritten by one of the great ‘90s engines. People tended to love them too, whether from afar or as owners. But like a lot of stuff from what now seems like a hedonistic, free-for-all decade, VW’s coupe has mostly fallen by the wayside - or at any rate, it never achieved the sort of hallowed status that guarantees investment-grade returns.

There are several reasons for this, though probably it has much to do with the cars that came immediately afterwards. In truth, the Corrado was less a car of the ’90s and more a wonderful last throw of what dice VW had left from the ‘80s. Its underlying platform was certainly of that era; the styling, too. Only the narrow-angled VR6, introduced in 1991, truly nailed its colours to the Britpop mast. And by the end of the decade, cars like the B5 RS4, invested with twice the power courtesy of turbocharging, showed what could be achieved if German manufacturers really put their back into it.

Regardless, if you’re the right kind of age, it is impossible not to nurse a soft spot for the liftback coupe built atop a Mk2 Golf chassis. Doubly so if the car in question is a Storm, the run-out special edition that VW built to satisfy the UK market. Just 500 were produced, split between Classic Green with cream leather and Mystic Blue with black. This is the former, which tends to be the one enthusiasts remember, for reasons that should be obvious.

For the uninitiated, the Storm trim wasn’t just a badge, either. You got the colour-coded grille, heated seats and 15-inch BBS Solitude alloys. Yes, it still looked like it was on stilts - a novelty seemingly shared by all Corrodos - yet it still came off as restrained and effortlessly cool. Naturally you got the later 2.9-litre motor with 190hp, good enough for 0-62mph in 6.9 seconds; though of course the VR6 was more about presence than pure performance. It filled the Storm out perfectly.

This example appears to occupy the useful middle ground between museum piece and shed contender. The selling dealer says it stayed with its first owner for roughly the first 62,000 miles, and the MOT record backs up a life of predominately light use: it’s covered fewer than 700 miles since 2018. But apparently some meaningful money has been spent, too, including a new clutch, new exhaust, refurbished original wheels and a bare-metal, glass-out respray.

As well as looking the part, its appeal is helped enormously by comparative rarity: according to the vendor, there are just 16 examples still on the road. That seems like quite the drop-off, until you recall that it’s been more than 30 years since a new Storm graced a showroom. Hasn’t time flown? And while it never reached the fantasy garage price bracket that so many noughties legends have gone onto, an asking price of £17,950 suggests that the Corrado’s reputation as a cult classic is well intact.

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