18/07/2008 01:08. WOLFSBURG July 17, 2008: With the market launch of the new Scirocco just round the corner, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschafts Corporate History Department is presenting the story of a model with a difference in a new book entitled Scirocco. Aufregend vernnftig. Der Volkswagen Scirocco 1974-1992. Based on previously inaccessible documents from the Corporate Archive in Wolfsburg, historian and archivist Claudia Bhler for the first time traces the history of the first generations of the desert wind from the Mittellandkanal, from development and series production through to the marketing and sale of the Volkswagen sport coup.

A hot wind began sweeping through the streets in 1974: the Volkswagen Scirocco. This, the second model in the new product generation which began with the Passat, celebrated... // Autochannel