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Every year, the Volkswagen Group gets each of its mainstream brands to put together a new concept or two to present to the gathered fans at the
GTI-Treffen at Wörthersee, Austria. The
Volkswagen,
Škoda,
Seat and
Audi brands all participate (to the exclusion of
Porsche,
Lamborghini,
Bugatti and
Bentley), but the German industrial giant also gets its apprentices to take part as well. Each year a team of interns transforms the company's prototypical hot hatch - the venerable
GTI - and this is what they came up with this year.
Reviving the famed Wolfsburg Edition badge, this one-of-a-kind GTI takes its inspiration from the city where the first Golf was born 40 years ago and the original GTI two years after. The team of twelve apprentices - eight men and four women - worked for nine months to put together the concept, and now it's ready.
At the heart of the GTI Wolfsburg concept is the 2.0-liter turbo four from the Golf R2 rally car producing a massive 375 horsepower, eclipsing not only the 227 hp in the stock GTI but also the 290 in the
Golf R, and approaching the output of the
Golf R 400 concept.
Of course the engine isn't the end of the story. The team also hand-painted the car in red, with black stripes and the stylized Wolfsburg city skyline appearing throughout: in the door stripes, on the horn button, the wheel hubs and the inside door panels. The cabin features a pair of Recaro buckets, inversely upholstered with tartan bolsters and black leather and red stripes. The interns even went to the pain of 3D-printing the one-off air pressure display, and installed auxiliary gauges above the infotainment display. There's even a 2,170-watt, 11-speaker sound system among the many details you can delve into in the press release
below.
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