40 years ago today the first VW Golf rolled off the assembly line in Wolfsburg   The ‘Typ 17’ Golf had the job of practically saving Volkswagen, as Beetle sales declined sharply. It worked. By October 1976 they’d produced a million – on the way to 6.8 million Mk1s. By …

Mike Flynn (fthaimike) has been very busy putting together an impressive line up of Guest Demo cars for this year’s Apex Festival. Some of these demo cars are seen in the pictures put up in this thread post 33 Mike Flynn, owner of the 1:1 scale Kamei Golf Mk1 replica, …

Apex Festival May 10th to 11th 2014. Prices, details…Lets get booking!!! (Last date for Online Advance Tickets May 2nd) Introduction The Apex festival organisers are proud to present a family friendly festival, with a motorsport, classic and retro car twist! Club GTI has been invited to attend and participate in …

Bedford Autodrome GT March 17th 2014 With 35 booked for the day, we look forward to seeing you there. Below is a list of attendees. The list of booked Attendees. No Name Car Garage 1 mr brown Seat Leon 1M 20vT Y 2 Nige P VW Golf 2 16v(T) 3 …

Volkswagen Flat Out At The WRC Finale In Wales This finale is one that Volkswagen will thoroughly enjoy: the Rally Great Britain in Wales. Despite having won all the competitions in this year’s FIA World Rally Championship (WRC)*, Volkswagen will not be taking its foot off the pedal as it …

Volkswagen celebrates the 30 millionth Golf World’s 30 millionth Golf drives off the assembly line in Wolfsburg “Car of the Year 2013” award presented in Wolfsburg Wolfsburg, 14 June 2013 – It is an event of historical dimensions: the world’s 30 millionth Golf has come off the assembly line at …

New Golf GTI has up to 230 PS of power, and is 18 per cent more fuel efficient (If anyone cares) Progressive steering, xenon headlights and ambience lighting are standard Handling of the Golf GTI Performance model crosses over to high-performance sports cars Wolfsburg / Saint Tropez, 22 April 2013 …

Good news. After some negotiations with GSF, we’ve managed to revive the Trade discount arrangement with them. The trade discount will work via Telephone Mail Order or Over the counter at GSF Heathrow for now. We’ll get this bedded in and then look at options of how we might get …

We’re moving to the new server on Friday evening, 19th April Starting at 8pm UK time. We should be finished about midnight if it all goes well. Hopefully this will put an end to the regular server crashes we’ve been seeing over the last few months. During the upgrade the …

At Volkswagen, the letters ‘GTI’ have stood for superior dynamic performance for over three decades now. In the tradition of previous models by the same name, Volkswagen is introducing the latest version of the Golf GTI at the Geneva International Motor Show. For the first time, the legendary compact sports …