Then are all the ‘gadgets’ to help the driver such as rain sensing and automatic dimming rear view mirrors, dusk sensor with automatic driving lights, automatic coming home lighting function, front electric windows and front fog lights. This test car was fitted with the optional parking sensors, and the optional ‘Winter Pack’ that includes heated front seats, headlight washers, heated windscreen washer jets and low washer fluid warning light - extremely useful

In the worse case scenario, are driver and front passenger airbags plus curtain airbags that include front side airbags as well as front occupants’ whiplash optimised head restraints and three point seatbelts all round. Both rear seats are fitted with ISOFIX mountings. Securing the Scirocco is an electronic engine immobiliser, remote central locking and an alarm thus falls into insurance group 16.

The name Scirocco refers to a hot wind that blows from the Sahara Desert to the Mediterranean. Well just like its namesake this car will certainly blow away not just the cobwebs, but also many of its competitors.

Enjoy.

Jackie Violet - Female First