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VW Golf GTI Edition 35 Time Machine Visits 1976 Original

A new section has just been added to the Volkswagen UK Facebook page, and it’s not your average competition or press information-filled brochure for a new car. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Golf GTI, they’ve sent the Edition 35 and a couple of lads with strong accents back into the past to 1976.
Why 1976? Because that’s when the original Golf GTI was born. The boys get to check out how the car was created in the old days, be Germans with brown coats, pencils and spanners.

“Our travelers - fitted with helmet-cameras and microphones - went to thank the engineers for their efforts in creating such an iconic vehicle. Unfortunately we lost the camera-feed as our adventurers decided to take the GTI Time Machine for a spin through history,
” VW UK says.
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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.
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