Abstract Types / Type Parameters in Scala

I am trying to write some Scala code that needs to do something like:

class Test[Type] { 
   def main {
       SomeFunc classOf[Type]
       val testVal: Type = new Type()
    }
 }

and it's failing. I'm obviously not understanding something about Scala generic parameters. Clearly, the misunderstanding is that in C++, templates essentially function like string substitutions, so new Type() will work as long as the class being passed in has a default constructor. However, in Scala, types are different kinds of objects.