Back in the early 00's VW did a fairly decent job with the Golf Mk4 kit cars. These were high tech enough...270hp 2.0 16v, wide track, sequential transmission, the usual, but they couldn't quite put it together in terms of pace and reliability. They looked amazing, and up until recently you could still source the parts at Bildon Motorsport. Crashes like this one on the 2000 Sony Manx Rally, with Mark Higgins is at the wheel, didn't help matters much. The TDi Rally car which came after this petrol-powered version did a bit better, but ultimately VW has never made a machine which is considered a rally classic, like Ford, Subaru, Toyota or Mitsubishi. But it didn't always have to be like that. There was one car which could have changed everything, but we'll have more on that later...
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