Hard to buy anything these days without some kind of false justification, right? This large leather sofa you just bought? Well, it was half price, so I had to. And that flat screen TV? You had lost the remote to your old …
 
So how to justify buying a fast coupe petrol tax in a group of high-ish, at a time when the economy is flat on his ass and can hardly afford loo roll?
 
Easy, just put a diesel engine in it. What it has done with the VW Scirocco, making it more accessible to more people. OK, so you push a car in a desirable diesel is nothing new, but we are happy one did in a Scirocco – our car of 2008.

 
You get all the magnificence of the petrol version, with just a little less guilt and some more notes in your wallet. Some might say that the “Roc is to remain pure gasoline and diesel which gives a somewhat diluted its trademark.
 
Not so. Obviously not as fast as the 2.0-liter TSI, do not forget Golf GTi is just a disguise, but just as strong and certainly not long in coming. throttle response is as immediate as it gets in a diesel, and pulls quickly and cleanly through the gears – feeling more powerful than your appointment 138bhp and 236 lbs ft