I've got a friend who's a big VW fanatic. He owns four -- a 60s/70s beetle, a Mk2 GTI, a Scirocco, and a Corrado. (Currently, none of them are streetworthy, although that's just because the Corrado, his daily driver just broke down with some sort of ignition switch problem.)

Anyway, he's always going on about how VW is going the wrong way, and he doesn't understand why they don't come out with another Scirocco/Corrado-type car. He claims that it's obvious that that's what people want.

I think he fails to recognize, though, that while the enthusiast group is loud, it's a small minority of people who buy VWs. It sure seems like they're bigger when you keep your head in eurocar magazines all the time. They probably wouldn't have pulled the Corrado after only a few years if it had been selling well.