Volkswagen designed the GTI as a sort of best version of the Golf. If you're not gunning it, it's quiet and refined, and you probably wouldn't even know it's a GTI unless you looked at the badge on the steering wheel.
All that refinement is good, but some people want a crazy GTI, and we think this one fits that description perfectly.
HG Motorsport is focusing a lot of its efforts on making a very fast Golf 7 GTI, and they've just swapped the standard exhaust for one without the rear resonant box, but keeping the catalyst. This no-TUV style of exhaust sounds totally abnormal, but the reduced back pressure should help the performance of that 2-liter TSI.
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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