Scirocco Central

Hi everyone,
When I bought my MY2010 Roc earlier this month I was confident I was buying a GT model. The car supermarket selling it did not appear to know it was a GT, which helped me to get a good price, I think. I checked all the specs for MY2010 and this car has all the GT features so I am confident it is a GT. So is a car a GT just because it has all the features, or could it be a base model with extras? Is there any way to tell? There is no clue on my car's V5 and I have decoded the build sticker without getting an answer. Insurance companies treat the GT as a separate model so it appears to matter, a bit, anyway. Thanks for any clues you can offer!

Mine is the 2.0tsi petrol and my v5c shows it as a 'scirocco gt'. If that helps at all.

Thanks gaz r, mine shows 'scirocco s-a' and I think s-a means semi-auto, i.e. dsg, but no mention of GT. However I think I have all the GT kit! This is a puzzle.

Yes - mine also shows GT on the V5, you are correct the "SA" does mean Semi-Auto for DSG equipped vehicles, but I know some guys on here have manual gearbox but "SA" listed as the transmission type!

skippy wrote:Yes - mine also shows GT on the V5, you are correct the "SA" does mean Semi-Auto for DSG equipped vehicles, but I know some guys on here have manual gearbox but "SA" listed as the transmission type!

One of which is me. Mines a manual but v5 says auto.

Mine says Scirocco GT TDI on my V5

Yeah it should say scirocco GT TDI.... also you can tell if you have sat nav? Bluetooth? i'm sure there a couple of examples of what you get extra for a GT model....

x.laura.x wrote:Yeah it should say scirocco GT TDI.... also you can tell if you have sat nav? Bluetooth? i'm sure there a couple of examples of what you get extra for a GT model....

Neither Sat Nav or Bluetooth would be standard in a MY2010 GT car.

Bluetooth only became standard after Aug 2011 and Sat Nav along with.leather was only standard on the last "run out" GT cars before the launch of the facelift model

Cuprabob wrote:

x.laura.x wrote:Yeah it should say scirocco GT TDI.... also you can tell if you have sat nav? Bluetooth? i'm sure there a couple of examples of what you get extra for a GT model....

Neither Sat Nav or Bluetooth would be standard in a MY2010 GT car.

Bluetooth only became standard after Aug 2011 and Sat Nav along with.leather was only standard on the last "run out" GT cars before the launch of the facelift model

Black headlining and tinted rear windows are also standard on all GT scirocco's

Shak

My cars supposed to be a gt but I've got a light headliner. Shows on insurance & that as a gt too

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I think black headlining is only for GTs with leather trim. Cars with cloth get light coloured headlining I believe.

Cuprabob wrote:I think black headlining is only for GTs with leather trim. Cars with cloth get light coloured headlining I believe.

When I was specing a car up 2 years ago black headlining was a optional extra

whiteDevil_170 wrote:

Cuprabob wrote:I think black headlining is only for GTs with leather trim. Cars with cloth get light coloured headlining I believe.

When I was specing a car up 2 years ago black headlining was a optional extra

Interesting as that wasn't the case when I specced and bought mine in 2011

Mines cloth but has black head lining :-/

Shak

My MY2010 car has the foglights, dual zone climate control, highline computer, leather (option) with black headlining, multifunction wheel, tinted rear windows... can't think of anything missing from the MY2010 GT spec, except nowhere does the car or its V5 say GT!

My theory is that what goes on the V5 is what the first-registering dealer puts there and they do get it wrong (as with the manual cars that have s-a on the V5). My car wasn't registered until 6 months after the build date and I bet the dealer forgot what he had got.

jackhay wrote:My MY2010 car has the foglights, dual zone climate control, highline computer, leather (option) with black headlining, multifunction wheel, tinted rear windows... can't think of anything missing from the MY2010 GT spec, except nowhere does the car or its V5 say GT!

My theory is that what goes on the V5 is what the first-registering dealer puts there and they do get it wrong (as with the manual cars that have s-a on the V5). My car wasn't registered until 6 months after the build date and I bet the dealer forgot what he had got.

It's not the dealer who has made the mistake if the details are wrong it's the importer who provides the corresponding information for each VIN.

A lot of different dealers would have had to have got it wrong with the batch of 170 TDIs that are classed as S/A when they are in fact manuals. Not withstanding it's all one model of car affected. When I noticed mine was wrong I blamed my dealer and he showed me the paperwork that was used to register it and that said it was a manual.

Cuprabob wrote:It's not the dealer who has made the mistake if the details are wrong it's the importer who provides the corresponding information for each VIN.

A lot of different dealers would have had to have got it wrong with the batch of 170 TDIs that are classed as S/A when they are in fact manuals. Not withstanding it's all one model of car affected. When I noticed mine was wrong I blamed my dealer and he showed me the paperwork that was used to register it and that said it was a manual.

Thanks cuprabob, I stand corrected on that.

I still don't know how to tell for sure if a car is a GT, however!

You could give VW Customer Services a call with the VIN and see if they can enlighten you on the build spec.

Isn't one of the option codes on the boot / handbook sticker a "GT" code ?

aandrew wrote:Isn't one of the option codes on the boot / handbook sticker a "GT" code ?

I thought so too but when I decoded my car's sticker (using the excellent tool linked to in the 'decode build sticker' thread), I couldn't find any code for the trim spec. Interestingly the build sticker calls the car a 'SCIROCCO SPORT' and I had thought, when I bought it, that SPORT was the German designation for a GT. But (and I must be getting a bit obsessed by this) I looked at three Sciroccos in a different supermarket on Friday, one GT and two non-GT cars, and all three had build stickers with 'SCIROCCO SPORT' ! So now, not only do I not know how to spot a GT, I don't know what SPORT on the build sticker means!

I am starting to think that if a car has all the GT equipment [for the appropriate model year], then it is a GT, and there's nothing more to it. Unless anyone knows differently...