Volkswagen Up! GTI – hot babe

22 May 2017

The premiere of "charged" version of the Volkswagen Up! GTI

Many saw through the Windows of their comfortable SUVs Volkswagen Up! GTI will laugh. But these cars have the magic to fall in love with – at least remember the Renault 5 Turbo. In fact, the Germans their Up! GTI decided to remember the good word of the very first Golf GTI Mk I. Despite the apparent lack of continuity, which is not even in the titles, all the technical characteristics of the car are very close.

Volkswagen Up! GTI, which is going to show to the court audience during a tuning exhibition Wörthersee, is a pre-production sample. But given the clarity of all the details of the car and its contents, it can be assumed that the serial version does differ from the prototype will not.

Since the release of the first Golf GTI went for 41 years. Then, the model has produced a small revolution, allowing the opportunity to touch the sport, sitting behind the wheel of a small, comfortable car with quite a "civil" engine, albeit modified. Before the world did not know this.

We will remind, then the Mk I GTI engine had 110 HP and was allowed to disperse 810 kg "live weight" to 100 km/h in 9 seconds with a maximum speed of 182 km/h. For those years is more than impressive performance.

And today, after four decades, we have represented the Volkswagen Up! GTI, which is the engine of a turbocharged engine of 1.0 TSI, with a capacity of 115 HP and 230 ΜM in N∙m. Given that mass Up! GTI is 997 kg, to accelerate to 100 km/h it will for 8.8 seconds. The car's top speed – 197 km/h.

Omitting the topic of names, and looking at the characteristics, you know that the Volkswagen Up! GTI is the reincarnation of the GTI Mk I, but in a more rigid bodyshell and engine, which incorporates all the modern that is at the moment.

Volkswagen Up! GTI can be ordered by selecting one of the characteristic of the "GTI" colors: "tornado red", "pure white", "dark silver", "black pearl" and the new GTI-color – "costa azul" (blue).

As expected for the GTI version, the Up! along the grille stretches a red line with an appropriate inscription, and on the sides of the dealt double lines. The Volkswagen Up! GTI 17 inch original wheels and retuned suspension, lowered by 15 mm.

Inside the Central part of the dashboard painted in a Burgundy color and the seats are finished in cloth in the box, obvious Parallels with the great-grandfather.

Volkswagen Up! GTI – unusual project. But 40 years ago the same unusual it seemed and Golf GTI Mk I.