The Volkswagen Golf has had it up to here with all your supercar nonsense. It's taken steroids buffed up and is here to whoop every Italian tush on the block.
After teaching the Ferrari horse that there's no reason for it to prance about, the same twin-turbo V6 Golf is back to teach the Gallardo bull how to be a little more calm.
During a recent drag racing event held on an empty piece of runway, HGP-Turbo's 745 horsepower family hatch humiliated a Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Tricolore, the special rear-wheel drive version of the last-gen V10 supercar. With 200 horsepower between them, the results of this race are hardly surprising.
Since Lamborghini is part of the Volkswagen Group family, could this fight be considered a bit of inter-brand rivalry?
Like we've told you before, power from this mighty Golf comes from a Passat R36's V6 engine that's been twin-turbocharged. The exact output is 745 hp (557Kw) and 925 Nm (682 lb-ft) of torque, which is about three times the factory setting.
Needless to say, you have to have specialized running gear to handle that much power, so the standard gearbox has been swapped out for an RS3 unit while the brakes are from a V12-powered Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG.
At the end of the day, the Lamborghini looks good losing while the Golf is as complicated to maintain as a race car. But some VW fans won't rest until they have the best machine around!
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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