healer

The Citi Golf has been around in this country for so many years - this is it's latest facelift. Hopefully it'll be the last. I've heard that they're stopping production at the end of 2007. The car's not quite been released to the public yet (I know some people in the design team).

Engine specs are reported to be a 1.8l fuel-injected petrol motor developing somewhere around 96kW of power and reaching a top speed in the early 200's. (km/h)

Personally, I can't stand what they've done to the exterior with the bumper and side-skirts. The interior looks pretty nice and I'm sure it drives like the little pocket-rocket it's designed to be. I just hate looking at it.

What do you guys think?

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Willravel

I love the idea of revamping fun older cars, I mean I'm on the market for a Porsch 914 to rebuild, but this seems rather mundane and also kinda ugly. I could rebuild one better than that (1.8L turbo swap from more recent golfs, upgrade the turbo, lifters, cam, headers, exhaust, suspension, front and rear struts, etc.). I'll bet I could get a nice 14 second quarter mile out of the thing, but it'd be expensive. It'd reach at least 230 km/h.

waltert

if you do all of that and end up with a 14 second car, you ought to be slapped =).

personally I think the car looks like poo, and is a bit underpowered for a sporty car (unless it weighs 2300lbs or less)

silent_jay

I love it, so bloody nice looking. I rather like the red piping on the bumper and side skirts.

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kurty[B]

In this case it's not really revamping an older car. VW in South Africa has been making the Citi Golf as a production vehicle for years. I personally love them, and would like to figure out how to import one to the U.S. because I love old school VW Rabbit GTi's, but finding one that is not a rust bucket anymore is extremely difficult stateside.

All you can see of the interior is the shifter, that kind of sucks. I don't like the wheels they have decided to use. I like some classy BBS style on that body. The taillights are awful!! The bumpers I don't mind, but I prefer the old thin 80's Euro style bumpers which I am sure no longer meet any safety standard what so ever.

If VW has stuck to its guns that car probably does not weigh more than 2300 lbs. Unless it has an over-bulky and heavy interior design. My old '83 Rabbit GTI (same body, only two door though) weighed in just under 2000 lbs, and that vehicle was a blast.

I miss that Veedub styling here in the states. To me their new vehicles look more like Hondas than German engineering. Thanks for the post healer.