Scirocco Central

They were closed for most of August, actually, mine was one of the last Sciroccos produced in over a month (late July). Starting today, they'll resume production with some lay-off days until the end of the year.

Today Autoeuropa (Scirocco's factory) is resuming the production of the Scirocco after a 1 month vacation break. This was the first year that Autoeuropa completely halted the production of all models (currently Scirocco, Eos and Sharan) for vacations. Although they are resuming production, there wil...

The "problem" is that sales of VW in Germany grew 36% last month (relative to the same month in 2008) due to high tax incentives granted by the German government. Because Golfs and Polos are "flying of the shelves" in Germany the part suppliers are not able to keep up with the de...

Strakata: So when you talk about 300 units a day for the Portugal plant, do you mean that as a combined figure, or 300 Sciroccos and 300 Eos' per day? based upon 5 days a week for 48 weeks of the year (summer and christmas shutdown), thats only 72000 cars, potentially only 36000 each for Scirocco a...

Scirocco1974,
Unfortunately I live in Portugal and VW just does not give a **** to our country even though the car is built here.

Ayeaye,
Sorry, I only have it in Portuguese: http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/index.ph ... &id=374456

Just to let you guys know that VW has just decided (2 hours ago) to REDUCE its daily output production of the Scirocco and EOS to 300 units/day. VW only manufactures the Scirocco here in Portugal and the factory is at 60% capacity but still VW has decided to reduce its output. I find it outrageous, ...