The Volkswagen Golf GTI is 40 years old this year, and it’s come an awful long way since it was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world in 1976. And this thundering new 306bhp, £35,000, two-seat-only Clubsport GTI S model is very much the pinnacle of its achievements thus far, dynamically as well as philosophically.
So much so that it has just broken the outright lap record for a front wheel-drive road car around the legendary Nurburgring with an outrageous time of 7min 49.21sec…
Steve Sutcliffe thrashes the new FWD Nurburgring lap record holder around ‘The Green Hell”!
GTI Clubsport S review: http://aex.ae/1WC3Sq8
GTI Clubsport vs Civic Type R: http://aex.ae/25x2kzm