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Remember when Volkswagen of America ran its"Unpimp ze Auto" series of television commercials , showing furious and presumably fast tuner cars being destroyed by a Swede representing the engineers of Deutschland? Let's all watch them again, because they never get old even after 18 years.
Volkswagen has applied the GTI label to many heated-up models since the Golf GTI and its Scirocco GTI cousin first hit German streets in 1976, including the Gol and Polo, but only the Golf version has ever been offered in the United States. Back when the Golf was known as the Rabbit here, the first GTIs hit American showrooms as 1983 models.
Volkswagen ditched the Rabbit name when the Mk2 Golf showed up in the United States as a 1985 model. Because there were no GTI versions of other VWs sold here, the GTI could be sold without Golf badging by VWoA. Thanks to the devoted enthusiast following for GTIs of any generation, these cars are not easy to find in car graveyards; prior to today's car, I'd documented just a handful of examples of the Mk2 GTI and Mk4 GTI in such places.
This car is much heavier than its 1983 ancestor , but it has a better power-to-weight ratio thanks to this turbocharged 2.0-liter DOHC engine with direct injection. That's 200 horsepower and 207 pound-feet, with each horse pulling 16.54 pounds . Yes, cars just keep getting heavier. Want to know how much the 1983 Chevrolet Monte Carlo weighed with the optional V8 engine? 3,236 pounds.
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