VW GOLF GTI CLUBSPORT
ANDRELAX. AFTER THE RATHER unsettling proposition that is the front-wheel-drive, automatic BMW hot hatch on the preceding pages – who’d have once thought that possible? – here’s something much more within our respective comfort zones. A new Golf GTI. A go-faster one at that. And breathe…
If the concept, and indeed the ingredients, are all very familiar, then that needn’t detract from what should hopefully be an important new arrival in the hot hatch market. In recent years, Karsten Schebsdat’s engineering team have brought us a superb series of VW hot hatches, peaking with future classics such as the Mk7 Clubsport S. This new Mk8 Clubsport is unusual in that it’s available right from the start of this generation’s GTI production run, rather than late in the day, and there’s no ambiguity about
