The Scirocco is a pure bred European sports coupe which first appeared at the Geneva Motor Show in March 41 years ago.
The car caught the spirit of the age: over a million units of the Scirocco have been produced since then.
Last summer a comprehensively refined generation of the sports car was launched, featuring, among other things, a completely new range of engines.
Building on this, Volkswagen unveiled the new Scirocco GTS — a sports car with 162 kW / 220 PS — in a world premiere at Auto Shanghai.
Its engine is one of the most popular in the Scirocco range because it is sharing its design genes with the engine of the Golf GTI. A turbocharged direct-injection petrol engine is recognized as being one of the most agile four-cylinder engines in the world.
It catapults the Scirocco GTS — either with a manual gearbox or with the 6-speed DSG — to 100 km/h in just 6.5 seconds. Top speed: 246 km/h (DSG: 244 km/h).
The average fuel consumption shows just how efficient the engine of the Scirocco is: just 6.1 l/100 km with a manual gearbox and similarly economical at 6.4 l/100 km with a DSG gearbox.
New VW Scirocco debuts: A million units sold in 40 years
New VW Scirocco debuts: A million units sold in 40 years
Price cuts drive sales of Saudi-owned electric car
- Lucid delivers more vehicles than expected as it prepares to launch luxury new Gravity SUV
RIYADH: The majority Saudi-owned electric car maker Lucid delivered more vehicles than expected in the past three months as price cuts helped boost demand.
The company delivered 2,394 cars from April to June 30, above analysts’ predictions of 1,940.
Lucid produced 3,838 vehicles in the first six months of 2024 and needs to make more than 5,162 cars by end of the year to meet its annual output forecast of 9,000. It made 8,428 cars in 2023.
“I think at this point everything is shaping for them to achieve that,” said Andres Sheppard, senior equity analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald. Lucid will produce and deliver more cars in the second half of the year because of the usual seasonal effects on the industry, he said.
Demand for electric vehicles has grown more slowly than expected pace in the past year, under pressure from high borrowing costs, economic uncertainties and consumer preference for hybrid alternatives.
Lucid and the market leader Tesla have responded by slashing prices and offering incentives such as cheaper financing options. Lucid, which is 60-per-cent owned by the Public Investment Fund, the Kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, cut the price of its flagship Air model by 10 percent in February.
Its new Gravity SUV model, a rival for Tesla's Model X, goes into production this year and will cost about $80,000.
