FINALLY! The Scirocco available in Canada!
 

[Too bad it'll be for $150,000 :(]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....oad2-630op.jpg

Ask us what Euro-only model we'd import to the States and the Volkswagen Scirocco would be near the top of the list. It combines everything we love about the GTI into a more attractive, racy package and, just like it's boxy brethren, it's packed with tuning potential.

HPA has been at the forefront of VW and Audi modifications for years, and the Canadian tuning firm has worked out a deal with V-Dub to import a handful of Sciroccos into British Colombia each year to finally offer North American gearheads the hot hatch we deserve. But naturally, they're not leaving good-enough alone.

Although the Scirocco tops out in R trim with a 265-horsepower 2.0-liter TSI four-cylinder, HPA will swap in a fully-built 3.2-liter V6 complete with a pair of Garrett H25 turbochargers, along with all-wheel drive. The result is the FT565, good for 550 hp and 500 pound-feet of torque. Bump it up to the Stage 2 package and torque swells to 600 lb-ft and the 0-60 time drops to 3.4 seconds, with a quarter-mile time of 11.3 seconds. Top speed? HPA claims 200 mph... in a hatchback.

In addition to the engine mods, the stock brakes have been swapped out in favor of 14-inch, eight-piston units in front and 13-inch rotors out back, with 19-inch aluminum BBS coated in Dunlop SP Sport Maxx tires.

As you'd expect, such a conversion and importation doesn't come cheap: HPA only plans to build 10 FT565 Sciroccos each year, at a cost of $150,000 a piece. And no, there's no word on whether the Scirocco will be available here in the U.S. Dammit.

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/19/w...k-and-move-to/

The stance is so sexy

agreed.
Like a big, fat wedge, it looks mean as hell.


props to HPA for kicking it up a notch and importing these things.
:thumbsup:

a $150,000 volkswagen? i mean i like sciroccos but.... wut?

how much is a new audi r8 again?

+1

i'd rather buy something else for 150k...

That is why there is about 10 cars being imported. It should be enough to support the vw fanantic market and eventually it will get sold.

Been a corrado/scirocco fan for a decade. Don't mind having one of those in my garage.

150k = so not worth it.

why don't they do the smart thing and import 9 stock ones, and 1 of these piles of nonsense.

car looks sick but 150,000 is a bit too much

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/va...576808797.html

90k

I don't think it would be going out on a limb to say that *anyone* who buys one of these, regardless if they are a hardcore VW fanatic, is retarded.

it's awesome that it's available in canada but not worth the price, still fucking sexy though

WANT.

Just don't want to pay for it.

too_slow would buy it in a heartbeat.

he's a hardcore VW fan.

lol

how much does one of these stock ones cost?

same as a GTi

sure it's sexy and mean looking and rare but the price range is in the same range as top model luxury cars

i dunno..

wayyyy too expensive imo...id prob go for an r8 if i had that kind of money.

mb they should bring in the dacia sandero :p

i'd take a M6/GTR/R8 over this

but im not a VW fan so yea

what is this "severin wolf"? a quick search turned up mostly ads for new fords :confused:

We just finished painting the bodykit at our shop www.bavara.ca - I'll try and take some pics of the actual car for you guys if they'll let us.

that would be cool Shantz, I'm a VW fan (MKV owner) but if I had 150k to spend on one car I wouldn't be looking at VW's

Reminds me of when Richard Hammond was scoughing up at the LFA's cost.
"375,000 for a LEXUS, LEXUS"
lololol easily, "150,000 for a VOLKSWAGEN, VOLKSWAGEN"

If Honda couldn't push their NSX near the end of the production run for that price, who's gonna buy a VW for that price?

Makes me want to move to Germany just for this reason.

I wonder if Chinese fast food would be a hit with the Turkish-German population?