and the walkie-talkie tour-guide gestures to an immaculate VW Golf Mk1 GTI perched daintily on a plinth. “Here we have what’s generally agreed to be the world’s first hot hatchback,” she trumpets.
The Mk1 Golf GTI is credited with starting the hot hatchback genre, while the latest, Mk7 version has taken the name into unchartered, 300bhp, sports car-slaying territory. But arguably the finest GTI of them all is the one you see here, the Mk5. Launched in 2005, it returned the fast...
Sounds like the bug had bitten pretty hard. And as the project evolved, little by little, and he attended more and more local car meets, Kenny found his head increasingly being turned by the Mk1 and Mk2 Golfs on the scene. Naturally it wasn’t long before seeing turned to doing, and i...
When PSW began building anew carfor Daniel’s 2013 drift endeavors the Golf was put up for sale, quickly finding a new home at Dala Performance. Björn hadn’t just liked what he saw the first time he witnessed it turning a wheel in anger, but more so, the potential to develop it...
When the Almera perished, Nissan chose not to replace the little-loved hatch directly, but to instead offer the Qashqai crossover, pre-empting the current trend for SUV-everythings. The stellar success of the Qash - it has ranked among the UK's top ten best-selling cars pretty much every...
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