The Volkswagen Scirocco is a three-door, front-engine, front-wheel-drive, sport compact hatchback manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen in two generations from 1974 to 1992 and a third generation from 2008 until 2017. Production ended without a successor. The Scirocco derives its name from the Mediterranean wind.

Is a Scirocco R front wheel drive?

There's no four-wheel drive system and no mechanical locking differential. But it's not plain-old front-wheel drive, the R uses VW's XDS pseudo LSD that employs the front brakes to try and evenly distribute torque across the front axle.

Why did they discontinue the Scirocco?

Expecting the Golf to outsell the Scirocco as its mass-production car, VW pushed the Scirocco ahead of the Golf's release to ensure any manufacturing complications were sorted. ... In the late '80s, VW decided that the Scirocco would be no more, and discontinued it in favor of its successor, the Corrado.