When equipped with the slick six-speed DSG transmission, the Scirocco R could complete the 0 – 60 mph dash in just 5.5 seconds, while manual transmission cars took a couple tenths of a second ...
The optional (£1500) DSG transmission suits the R’s refined nature very well, although the plastic paddles do feel cheap to the touch. If you’d hoped that the Scirocco, with its adaptive ...
The first hint that VW was about to revive the Scirocco name ... with the popular option of a six-speed DSG paddle-shifter. Quicker still was the 261bhp R model, launched in January 2010.