Why don’t they make hatches like this is India? These are the kind of cars that are better suited for Indian roads instead of coupes and sports sedans. Take a look at the new 2015 Volkswagen Scirocco GTS. This powerful hatch gets double the amount of power you can get in a VW Polo GT, which is the only GT hatch available in India, unfortunately. The Scirocco, a pure-bred European sports car, is one of those cars that is forever young. Presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March 41 years ago, it became an icon of compact German coupés.
The car caught the spirit of the age and 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 218bhp – in a world premiere in Shanghai. Its engine is one of the most popular in the Scirocco range because it’s sharing its design genes with the engine of the Golf GTI – a turbocharged direct-injection petrol engine that is recognised 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 kmph in just 6.5 seconds and reached a top speed of 246 kmph. The looks of the car complement its sportiness further and make the car a very desirable hatch in the European markets, but unfortunately it will not makes its way to India anytime soon.
