VW Scirocco Diesel Turbo road test

I don't now about you but in our house after work visits to the Coca-Cola curve have been a source of constant friction: "Your dinner is in the dog, I am working on my Hatzenbecks-Bogan line," is the sort of note I would come home to.
Clearly one reason is more and more cars have inherited detail from motorsport development, encouraging drivers to nip over the Channel almost daily to test chassis improvements. Even diesel owners.
Probably the first diesel turbo I drove was a Golf and how excited we were to find an oil burner that didn't have a factory fitted taxi radio.
The VW Scirocco GT two-litre TDi DSG is based on the current Golf but couldn't be any further from those early efforts if it was parked on Mars.
In a world increasingly populated by cubist practicality and skinny latte city cars, with all the appointments of a cave, the TDi is an affordable moderately warm two-door coupe costing £23k and attracting band F £125 tax.
For the more romantic among you, it's also a tottie magnet. A thing of beauty in a world of rhinoctopigs.
Women, especially, are attracted to its lines, before they get back into their 60mpg Hollyoaks hatchbacks, bought to beat eye-watering recession. Well hear this, the TDi averages 52mpg and you don't have to feel you have sinned in a previous life and are now damned to drive around in a comfort free zone.
The effects of economic nut crackers on car purchasing trends has been marked.
Scrappage schemes, straightened times and downright stomach liquefying fear have influenced a move towards small, low-cost cars. And as your ever so 'umble servant | have set out to drive them so can tell you it would be naive to think that quality is not compromised to keep costs down.
Bringing into sharp focus the Scirocco's interior.
Frankly, this could have been lifted directly from an Audi. Soft touch fascia materials look robust and the layout indicates a fully thought through design rather than an exercise involving Blu-tac and a lucky bag.
What's more, no animals died needlessly to provide the leather trim. Heated sports seats may be an extra but you just know the hide is not going to be saggy as a cod's face after five years.
On, then, to the road. A 0-60 time of 9.2 seconds is not exactly gut-busting stuff but allied to the underwear of the Golf there is plenty of fun to be had. There are two suspension settings and out of 'sport' the TDi will scrabble for grip but at least it comes without the infamous rocky road ride of some VAG stablemates.
Equipment? Well what do you think? Touch screen navigation and sunroof may be extras but the rest of the standard spec is outstanding. The six-speed DSG gearbox remains one of the best and amost reason enough to own the GT.
Not everything, of course is good. The rear side windows are so small them may as well be portholes but at least the rear passenger space bucks the coupe trend.
Finally, for those of you struggling with a domestic situation which includes full face helmets, the relevant insurance group is 12. And I am told the Scirocco is very stable in earthquakes.