SCIROCCO: How many made?

[Kathy Teulie <104372.1061@compuserve.com>]

Some of the answers to your questions are on my page.
(In the history section the dates are by year not model year.)

http://home.t-online.de/home/Scirocco2/doug.htm

All Sciroccos were built by Karmann.
Karmann's firm, founded in the early years of this century and
became famous for two projects for Volkswagen. Karmann conceived the
idea of the convertible Beetle in 1949, convinced VW that they needed such
a
"frivolous" car in the sober times after WW2, and then produced it at
his plant in Osnabr¸ck, Germany. The Karmann Ghia, conceived entirely
in-house by Karmann with body styling contracted to Luigi Segre's
Carrozzeria
Ghia design studio, gave VW its own affordable up-scale car. Later all
Sciroccos
 would be built by Karmann.

Convertibles are a house specialty, and many carmakers seek out Karmann
when they needed a specialist to engineer and produce a drop-top version
of their production sedans. Other clients include VW, Audi, Opel, BMW,
German Ford, Renault, and Mercedes. The main business today, however, is
manufacture of production tooling for stamping steel panels into body
parts. They sell tooling to _every_ production automotive maker in the
world today.

For Porsche, Karmann built many 356 bodies for Porsche. Beginning in
1961, Karmann built the "Karmann hardtop coupe," and continued to produce
regular coupe bodies through the end of 356 production in 1965. By the end
of
356 production, as Porsche switched over to the 911, almost all 356 coupe
bodies were being made by Karmann. In 1965 Karmann too switched over to
making 911/912 bodies because Porsche could not meet the demand at its
own plant. Karmann also built the 914 (body as well as assembly of the
entire car),
sold as a VW-Porsche in the rest of the world and the Porsche 914 in the
USA.


I have some lists but the numbers do not add up.
Scirocco I (March 1974 - 1981)     506,109 cars produced
Scirocco II (1981 - 09/10/92)         291,497 cars produced

I am not sure if this is true for all Sciroccos or just the US of Europe.
         Year Sales (Model years)
         1974 335
         1975 16,108
         1976 15,426
         1977 24,786
         1978 28,137
         1979 26,014
         1980 22,452
         1981 17,043
         1982 13,227
         1983 13,703
         1984 17,251
         1985 13,547
         1986 10,884
         1987 6,971
         1988 3,754
         1989 867
         1990 19
           
         Total 230,434
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Models shipped to Italy  1974 - 1983

Scirocco 1.1ltr 1975-1977
Scirocco 1.1ltr GT 1976-1979
Scirocco 1.3ltr GT 1978- 1983
Scirocco 1.3ltr GTS 1983
Scirocco 1.5ltr GT 1977-1979
Scirocco 1.5ltr TS 1977-1979
Scirocco 1.6ltr GT 5M 1979-1983
Scirocco 1.6ltr GT 4M 1979-1983
Scirocco 1.6ltr GTI 1976-1983
Scirocco 1.8ltr GTI 1976-1983

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I hope this helps.

Doug
87 16v silver Scirocco "GTX"
81 8v red Scirocco "S"


Message text written by Marc Getty
>

In the 26 days that I have had my Scirocco I have only seen a grand total
of two
other Sciroccos. This makes me curious as to how many of these cars were
ever
made. Anyone out there have any production statistics? I know the stats for
VW
Things are widely available, how about for the Scirocco? Also, where were
the
Sciroccos built? Just curious.....

-Marc

'74 VW Thing - http://getty.net/thing/ - http://vwthing.org/
'81 Jetta Diesel gone to the scrap heap after 178,000 miles
'84 Jetta GLi SLC, good shape, for sale in Philadelphia $800
'87 Scirocco 16V with 161,000 Miles, just got it on 7/2/99

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