GROUP G

Mr. Geg Marvin isn’t your average Volkswagen owner. “I’m nearly a 30-year Dubhead with a soft spot for wayward strays,” the 48-year-old explains with a grin. “If a strange or iconic mechanical oddball crosses my path then it's safe to say I’ll probably end up owning it.” That ethos is how we got talking with Greg on a random weeknight about all things VW. Shedding the stranger stigma took less than an hour.

You see, the car before you, a 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit finished off in Candy white with one-off fifteen52 flares, will be instantly recognisable to those who’ve been doing the Dub thing for 15 years or so. Except Greg didn’t build this bunny - C2Motorsports did.

The water is a bit murky in regards to the car’s complete history, and as such we won’t be diving in. Rather, let’s wade around in the obvious details. The car, a base model Rabbit 2-Door with cloth interior and a stick shift, was used as C2’s development mule as they created a turbo kit that would take the stock 170hp five-cylinder upwards of 300 WHP. At the time, no one on record had ever attached a snail to the five