It looks like Motor Trend did a little multi-tasking when they flew Jason Cammisa out to Germany. Besides comparing DTM legends, he also took the not-sold-in-the-US Volkswagen Scirocco for a spin. The original concept for the Scirocco was to make a sport coupe with running gear from the GTI. Whoever came up with that idea should get a gold star because it worked for the original car and this new one. The fact that the new car looks awesome doesn’t hurt, either. We ultimately didn’t get the current Scirocco here in the States because VW America thought that a wider/lower/sportier/better looking version of the GTI would poach sales from the best seller that they have in the regular GTI. Somebody also probably cited the constant “Stupid fat Americans don’t like hot hatches, fast wagons and things that are rad.” that usually denies us all the cool cars of the world. Check out the video to see what we missed: