Video Post: Polo S1600 On Board

I know, I know. I'm slacking. I have excuses I swear, but I think the dog ate them.

I have a pretty cool post in the works on the A59 story follow up, but I need to get off my arse to get the facts all finished up. In the meantime however, enjoy one of my more favorite in-car videos from a Volkswagen Rally car.




Polo Super 1600, fast tarmac stage. What more could you want?

_WRS

H20 2005 Golf Rallye meet

These are from the 2005 H2O show in Ocean City, MD. For whatever reason, there were a surplus of Golf Rallyes there that year, and we shot a little 'get together' feature for Eurotuner Magazine. It was cool to see so many Rallyes together since they were never sold in the US, and there must have been a critical point that year with price/quality of used cars in Europe and crazy people in the US to import them. I'm not exactly sure how these cars get imported, but it has something to do with Canada and cars shipped without engines... certainly prohibitive enough to discourage everyone but the most dedicated. There have not been any more than one of these cars at any show since, so in hindsight this was a special moment to see these cars together.

We will do a full feature on the green NGP car at some point, it was a VR6 Turbo conversion, and with close to 600 horsepower at the wheels and 2000 lbs , was certainly one of the fastest cars I've been in.

_BS