Volkswagen will enter a factory-developed racing version of the new Volkswagen Scirocco in the upcoming Nürburgring 24 Hours race to be held from May 24 to 25 2008. The racing-tuned Volkswagen Scirocco will feature the 2.0 litre TFSI engine tuned up to produce 300 PS, and will be mated to a direct-shift transmission based on DSG.
“The racing version of the Scirocco was developed and prepared by our technical staff in record time and we are well on schedule now that we have successfully completed this first endurance test (at the Oschersleben motorsport arena). The Nürburgring 24 Hours is the ideal platform to showcase the performance capabilities of this exciting coupe,” said Volkswagen Motorsport Director Kris Nissen.
The Nurburgring 24 Hours is officially called the ADAC 24h Rennen Nürburgring, introduced by ADAC as a low cost alternative to the 1000 km Nürburgring aimed mainly towards amateur drivers and relatively cheap production cars.
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look nice…best of luck…
This car is damn hot man…
front bumper looks like proche cayanne
somehow i feel vw car design don’t last long, same to their reliability.
but if you can own this car without financial problem, who cares…..
next big thing frm VW…
Is this a new way of marketing the car? put in race, get tons of coverage.
Paul Tan: and inspire widebody bodykit designs!
this angle kinda reminds me of the Silvia S15
mystvearn said,
May 2, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
Is this a new way of marketing the car? put in race, get tons of coverage.
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Its already done for many years, how do u think most people here getting to know Ferrari or even a Spyker in F1. How pathetic that one of my friend just thought it was just a F1 racing team. Other than F1, there is also the Le Mans and JGTC. See who’s always the winning team and cars outside the street and you’ll know.
love the looks
Hmm..take away the badge and add a hood scoop and it becomes what an Impreza should have looked like.
Seriously, that was my first thought, before noticing the badge.
Nice car, this.
holy smokes!! This is one mean machine
Love the racing widebodykits.
awesome… go VW!
Go!! S15/Impreza Version 10/ S2000 thingie!! Just kidding, that’s one handsome widebody kit for the Scirocco.
If any of you guys notice, the left and right fender bulges coupled with the edge of the headlight design is reminiscent of the S2000. Looks sharp and focused.
EddyHyip said: “somehow i feel vw car design don’t last long…”
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When it comes to design it’s really subjective, everyone’s entitled to their own opinions on what’s “nice” or “not nice”. But I totally disagree with ur opinion dat vw car designs “don’t last long”. If u look back at the designs of vw cars n even vw group cars i.e. Audi, Lambo, Skoda, Seat. U can definitely c dat many (I’m not saying all) are timeless. An mid 90s Golf and A4 look as god today as it did then…
Maybe they get better coverage if VW went for more races which have more international exposure such as WRC. They are represented already by LP430s in GTRs but its not really a race that common people pay for viewing. Petrol heads maybe but not common peeps. Now with possible Porsche involvement, we fear the LP could be withdrawn.
But then again VW has managed to scale without splurging on these expensive marketing costs. Will Porsche change all that? And will we see Audi back on the WRC trail? What better than to see Quattro in action.
hmmm, this Nürburgring Nordschleife track recently become more popular among car manufacturers to show off their time attack can made on this track…it seems that this track is a must track to test before they can introduce their new sports car to the world…