Great read over on the ‘tex!
‘We always had a GTI in the family, from the first to the fifth,’ says racing legend, Hans Stuck. ‘There were no gaps here. Even when I was under contract with BMW, I preferred to drive to the Nürburgring in a GTI. It was in a GTI that I drove 911 drivers to distraction on the North Loop. That was the genius of this car and it has stayed that way right up to today.’
The GTI is one of the few cars that transcend both social and economic barriers in Europe, where it can be found in the garages of both the most wealthy and the less fortunate. More importantly, it has remained true to its roots as an economical, fun-to-drive hot hatch. So does the new sixth generation model still capture that spirit? After a full day tearing the car up and down the mountain roads in southern France we were left with big perma-grins and felt like we could breath a sigh of relief that the newest GTI is still a GTI.
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