2007 Volkswagen GTI Four Door Version
The Volkswagen GTI was first introduced over 30 years ago in Europe, and in the U.S. in 1983. Heralded as the first truly affordable German engineered sports sedan, the model quickly won fans with its combination of performance and hatchback practicality. In 2007, for the first time ever in the U.S. market, a four-door GTI is available.
So endearing was the GTI, and so enduring is its legacy, that whole generations who never experienced the original recognize those three letters—G-T-I—as forever linked to the Volkswagen that earlier generations affectionately called the “pocket rocket.”
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2009 Volkswagen Scirocco UK
The original Scirocco was first seen 34 years ago, and over two generations and 19 years a total of 77,460 Sciroccos were sold in the UK. Now the new model blows in, with equally distinctive coupé styling, a practical hatchback boot, four-cylinder engine and front-wheel drive – yet this is the most technically advanced production coupé that Volkswagen has produced.
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2008 Peugeot 207 GTi Turbo
The 207 GTi THP 175 will write the next chapter in Peugeot’s history of small performance cars, such as the legendary 205 GTi of the 1980s and, more recently, the 206 GTi 180. The 207 GTi THP 175, however, is the modern evolution of the eighties “hot hatchback”. It is a very multi-talented car which is easy to live with on a day to day basis, equally at home in town or out on the open road. It has the interior space to carry both passengers and luggage, but still able to provide a driving experience to satisfy the “enthusiast” in everyone.
Bridgestone Potenza 205/45R17W tyres mounted on new 17” nine-spoke “Pitlane” alloy wheels, a rear spoiler to optimise aerodynamic efficiency at high speed, a trapezoid twin chrome exhaust, “satin black” finish of the door B-post trims and hi-tech satin chrome door mirror covers, all confirm the 207 GTi THP 175’s sporty credentials.
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2006 New Volkswagen GTI
Launched in mid 1970s in Europe, the Volkswagen GTI made its American debut a few years later and became the original pocket rocket, a nimble, dynamic, compact vehicle that did for imports what muscle cars had done for Detroit a decade earlier.
Using the then brand-new VW Golf as their platform (at first, the Golf was sold as the Rabbit in the United States), a group of Volkswagen engineers, working on their own and without formal corporate approval, hot-rodded the replacement for the original Beetle into an exciting performance car that went into production wearing GTI designation. VW executives hoped to sell as many as 5000 of these sporty hatchbacks; over the next 25 years enthusiastic drivers would buy more than 1.4 million of them.
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