Volkswagen golf special edition

That was all rectified when the 16V was released in , it was, to say the least, a return to form and lives long in the memory of fans. It is still one of the best GTIs ever and although it only made around horsepower in stock form, they have been tuned to create crazy amounts of power.

This oddball special edition is a complete departure from the more performance-oriented Golfs, this was an off-roader. Although made in limited numbers, it was a factory version, VW just beat the crossover trend by a couple of decades. It is a rather strange production vehicle, pretty rare now and undeniably cool. VW wanted to give the Mk2 a send-off to remember, so this supercharged special edition was chosen to do just that.

At horsepower, this was the most powerful GTI to date, it was also the fastest, faster than the new Mk3 in fact. It was a rather strange move at the time, but it seems VW was more interested in marketing something else for the Mk3. VW had found a way to cram all the power and efficiency benefits of a traditional V6 into the compact, transverse-friendly inline-4 frame. It was, and still is, an engineering marvel.

The narrow-angle V6 was not the first of its kind, Lancia had been using a narrow-angle V4 since the 60s, but they took the technology to another level.

After the less than spectacular Mk3, the Mk4, by all rights, took another step backward. Getting even fatter, and further removed from its sub-compact roots. In many ways, the Mk4 R32 just embraces the new path, with a luxurious interior, AWD, and a horsepower valve VR6 engine, it was also equipped with one of the first DSG transmissions, which started a different kind of debate. Strikingly dynamic. Even on the inside, it is still in a class of its own. Digital Cockpit Pro. The essentials at a glance.

Discover Media. Have your route in your sights. The soundtrack in your ears. Features in the special edition model. Dynamic all the way round : the "Galway" alloy wheels. The special features close up. Light projection. Illuminatingly innovative. Test drive. And to the layperson who doesn't see the red accents and Rabbit-specific wheels, this special-edition Volkswagen GTI is just another VW pump.

GTI owners probably prefer to fly a few feet under the radar, anyway. We loved our long-term car so much, one of us bought it. The Rabbit Edition—we tested both manual and automatic variants—is a special trim level that VW claims will be produced in a limited run of "a few thousand" copies. Consider it part of the swan song for the Mk7 Golf in America; the eighth-generation Golf will likely go on sale in Europe in and come here as a model, possibly in only GTI and Golf R forms. The Rabbit name stems back to the first-gen Golf, which was marketed in the U.

The name was revived in the U. That means the combination of the "Rabbit" and "GTI" badges hasn't appeared together on the same car since the first-gen GTI debuted for the model year. You get Clark plaid seats and no sunroof, just like in the S, and you also receive the show-me-everything LED lights and advanced safety tech forward-collision warning, blind-spot monitoring, and rear-cross-traffic alert of the SE.

Some bummers about this package are the absence of automatic climate control and the fact that the Rabbit comes with the base, 6.