Our dedicated drag racing category is filled with all kinds of exciting rides eager to prove their mettle against some equally powerful machines. Most of the time, they are sub-10-second cars, with the best of them being capable of running the quarter mile in around eight seconds and even less from a standing start, and they usually run on race or pump gasoline.
But not these two, as diesel feeds their modified motors. The two rivals from different generations met up at a drag racing event somewhere in Hungary, supposedly not long ago, and the video just made its way to the World Wide Web, uploaded by Drag Car 4K.
So, what do we have here? An old Volkswagen Golf, for one. It is an Mk3, supposedly packing a 1.9-liter TDI under the hood, which was heavily modified. The exact output sent to the front wheels is unknown, but we can see a tailpipe sticking out through the hood that blows a haze of black smoke every time the driver abuses the right pedal.
Mind you, it is not a pristine ride, but it is fast, especially for something that is said to pack a four-pot diesel. And do you know what else has a low-revving four-banger under the hood? Its ad-hoc rival was an old Audi A3. The four-ring brand's hatchback uses a 2.0L TDI, according to the video uploader, again, with undisclosed output and torque.
Photo: Screenshot Youtube | Drag Car 4K
Looking a bit cleaner than the VW Golf mentioned above, this Audi A3 also had its oil burner slightly modified, and it is almost as smoky as its challenger on that day. But how did the two cars do down the quarter mile? Well, their performance is nothing to write home about, as we've seen vehicles that are way quicker over the years.
The same video reveals that one of them completed the run in 11.910 seconds, with an exit speed of 208.696 kph (129.68 mph), whereas the other was clocked at 14.928 seconds and had an exit speed of 163.265 kph (101.45 mph). The eighth-mile run was dealt with in 8.1 and 10.1 seconds, respectively. So, as we already told you, nothing impressive.
But why dedicate an entire story to these two rides when they are not that fast, and they haven't aged like fine wine, either? Because we do not come across such smoky machines on a daily basis. The haze of black smoke is enough to make bystanders cough. We don't care what anyone says, so we will end it with this remark: we can actually smell the opening picture and the video that's right below, and we're confident all petrolheads can, too. The roll-coaling force is strong with these two.
After a series of unfortunate events put an end to Cristian's dream of entering a custom built & tuned old-school Dacia into a rally competition, he moved on to drive press cars and write for a living. He's worked for several automotive online journals and now he's back at autoevolution after his first tour in the mid-2000s. Full profile
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