PUNCHING…
No matter which generation it was produced in, everybody loves a bright red Golf GTI and Taison Shelter’s R32-swapped Mk2 example is a true knockout machine!

THE GRAND TOUR
After a complicated four-year restoration, you’d forgive Vitor Santos for locking this immaculate Polo breadvan away for special occasions. But where’s the fun in that?

WHACKY RACER
Being obsessed with DTM and IMSA racing, it’s no surprise Nick Flom would wind up in something a bit fruity on the road, although his carbon-clad RS3 daily driver is actually more at home on the track…

SQUARE PUSHER
Sketched from his sick bed eight years ago, Thomas Owczarski’s second ‘RocketPolo’ build is a home-brewed blend of automotive cultures rooted in 25 years of re-working the breadvan.

NEW WORLD ORDER
When is a demo van not a demo van? When you build it for you and your family, rather than purely promoting products. Let’s call it the best of both worlds...

JAP-SPEC Mk4 POLO
The Boy Racer chic continues with this Votexkitted Polo running ALL the right OEM+ mods

TASTE INVADER!
Boy Racer styling for the XBox generation. R32'd Mk3 on 17" Venoms with neon lights…

BAGGED MK4 GOLF R32
Unique R32 on BBS Impuls gets custom makeover

TUCKED & TIDY T5
Bagged T5 on banded Range Rover steelies

BLUE MOTION
Cramming 500hp of turbo’d VR6 and 4Motion into a subtly re-worked Mk2 shell, Tim Dunn’s Golf might look like it’s picking the best of the Volkswagen parts bin – but it’s heavily inspired by something a little further afield.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS
There’s a school of thought in this glorious scene of ours that a good modified car is never truly finished. Serial modder Steve Fraser not only subscribes to this notion, he has a YouTube channel and social media presence dedicated to documenting the constant evolution of his fleet…

TRADE BAIT
Some people search high and low for their next project cars, while others, like Daniel Herrera, manage to find them far closer to home.

WORLD CLASS
For the third year running, Pottstown, Pennsylvania opened its arms, along with its storefronts and streets to visitors and cars from around the Volkswagen world for the totally unique L’oe Show event.

INTO THE UNKNOWN
Bought as a more tuneable replacement for his daily-driven S3, Dave Henderson’s RS3 has evolved into one of the UK’s fastest drag cars – and he isn’t finished yet.

A RIDE FOR REMEMBRANCE
Many of our builds hold special memories, but Wayne Collier’s creation, well, we could have written a book on this endeavour.

DAILY EXPRESS
Faced with a wrecked project car and no quick  x, Dawid Szejn channelled half a lifetime of motorsport influences into his daily driver – a DTM-inspired Polo with 241hp of TDI-swapped performance on tap.

THE LAST HURRAH
Serial modifier Dean Pressnell is serious this time, he’s told both PVW and his long-suffering wife that this is his  nal build. A Mk7 Wagon might not be the most obvious starting point but we reckon he might just have saved the best to last…

RULE OF THREE
After a string of bad luck Luke Cartwright pulled out all the stops with a 315hp home-built Eurotourer, built to be driven but with a finish to rival the best in the scene.

KICKING IT OLD SKOOL
While VW really seem to have got its act together these days with its new-wave hot hatches, there are some - like Melis Julevic - who believe you still can’t beat the oldskool way. We tend to agree…

SUPERBAD
Kim Sandells’ purple B7 RS4 might be a faithful sidekick but it’s hardly what you’d call subtle!

CREAMY CENTER
Mixing Hot Rod inspiration with Euro styling, Benny Broyles has created a whole ‘look’ of his own and also produced one extremely unique Jetta in the process…

GOOD VIBRATIONS
VWs, a seaside location, entertainment for the family and the warm glow of a not-for-profit charity event? Count us in!

R & R
With life as a yacht engineer taking him away from home for months on end, Ryan Benjamin set out plans for an all-weather, high-performance daily to make the most of his time back on land. And where better to start than a Golf R?

FAMILY
Some of us were drawn to modified cars by friends or being tempted by rides seen in magazines or online. For most, like Alex Pappas, it started with family…

KARMANN FLAIR
Karmann got the Corrado design so right the first time around that 9 of 10 times we’d usually advise owners keep their modi cations to a minimum. Robin Schwab’s VR6 is an example of the tenth time…

WINNING AT LIFE
For years, Kate Dixon had been trying to snap up this unique VW Amarok. Now it’s finally on her drive with her personal touches applied, and boy, was it worth the wait…

POWER PLAY
Dripping with carbon fibre and re-engineered for almost four times its factory horsepower, Tom Parker’s RS3-swapped Golf R is a luxurious daily driver with hypercar-baiting potential.

BRINGING THE FIRE
When pictures of Tom Goldsmith’s fire Bus first broke cover, a lot of people thought it was a superbly detailed model. They were wrong…

BUILT DIFFERENT - The third round of the Meguiar’s Tom vs Dale build-offs might sound like an old-school Ford vs Volkswagen grudge match but, we assure you that’s not the case…

ROYAL ELEGANCE - Black as a colour is thought to be elegant yet mysterious. Purple represents creativity, Royalty and wealth. So, you’d expect a combination of the two would produce something quite special -
and it has...

BERG BUNNY
There are a few things that come to mind when you think of race car. One of them might not be a MK1 Rabbit, but then again you are reading this in PVW….

RACE INVADER
When Tony Nixey bought a former VolksWorld feature car in 1994 to go racing, he had no idea where that journey would take him..

PERMISSION FOR TAKEOFF
US Navy man, Rafael ‘Ralphie’ Cabrera Jr is used to directing military aircraft in his role as a Chief Air Traffic Controller. It makes sense that his Mk1 Cabriolet is both ready for inspection and, with 1.8T power, a flying machine…

IN LIVING COLOUR
Do not adjust your monitor, remove your rose-tinted glasses, or begin to question your corporeality. You can shelve any existential crises you may be experiencing and just accept your reality. This is not a test. Yes, there is not one, but two multi-coloured Polos on the pages before you.

WEIGHTING GAME
With two engines and a combined 1900hp, DOP Motorsport turned Volkswagen’s most economical hatchback into one of Europe’s fastest drag cars.

HOON FOREVER
Ken Block may have sadly passed but his legacy lives on. We speak with Hoonigan co-founder, Brian Scotto about what Ken was really like on and off the screen.

TTWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF TT
Now at the end of production after 25 years, Audi has released a special ‘Final Edition’ model of the TT. We look back over a quarter century of this iconic sports car...

BUILT LIKE A TANK
By day Jake Nelson works on military vehicles. It makes sense that his Berg-kitted 330bhp 1.8T powered Mk1 looks as hard as nails. You’d be brave to wage war against this one…

THAT NEW CAR SMELL
Very little beats that new car smell or the bene ts that come with buying a car brand new. We ask Dave Raybould whether the novelty, or that smell, ever wears off..

UNDER THE INFLUENCER
When Youtube star, Dan Chambers, realised his recently purchased Mk1 Golf GTI Campaign wasn’t going to be the quick fix he had hoped for, he embarked on a full nut and bolt restoration with a 20v turbo twist!

DREAM TEAM
If we asked you to picture your dream Mk6 Golf GTI we reckon the image you’d come up with would be pretty similar to the car gracing these very pages.

MADE TO MEASURE
Blending classic performance styling with modern muscle, JP van der Horst’s Jetta is a homebrew hot rod with the details to match the best in the business.

COMPLETED IT, MATE
Dig beneath the clean lines of Jack Fanning’s Mk5 GTI and you’ll find a show-and-go car more thoroughly put together than you might first expect…

NICK TUCK
When we first clapped eyes on Nick Ponterio’s incredible Mk2, we had no idea it was the same car that graced these pages almost a decade before, albeit in a very different guise.

BRIGHT IDEAS
Determined to preserve his Polo’s unusual utility fleet orange paint, automotive engineer Thomas Owczarski took an unconventional approach to the already challenging task of laying it low.

FINE TUNING
Christian Gale’s show-stopping, home-built GTI returns to PVW with some hard-fought updates that put it back among the UK’s best.

THE JOKER
When building a motorsport-inspired, race-look project there are certain base cars that just seem like an obvious candidate… and an estate Skoda Octavia certainly isn’t one of them!

Mk1 CADDY
The World's best Caddy! No, that's not a question…

TREASURE ISLAND
The Channel Island of Guernsey has a population of 65,000, measures 25 square miles and the maximum speed limit is 35 MPH. Although beautiful, it’s not an obvious automotive hub. Tom Godfrey both sourced and built this swashbuckling Mk6 Golf R.

ERNEST GOES TO TOWN
With over 500bhp and AWD, it’s no wonder Ernest Staciwa’s sleeper Mk2 boasts supercar acceleration times, even if he doesn’t like to shout about it…

SHAPE SHIFTER
Building on a bedrock of ideas from his magazine-featured first car, Christian Drechsel opted for a more left eld silhouette to bring his R32-powered plans to life.

THE ITALIAN JOB
We don’t feature many cars from Italy for some reason, but when we do. Well, just look at it…

DOWN WITH THE BROWN
Fusing intercontinental style with innovative ideas and a high-end finish, this gloriously chocolatey Scirocco is flying the flag for brown enthusiasts everywhere.

HIGH-SPEED HAULERS!
The new Golf R Estate is the latest in a long line of ultra-fast estate cars from the Volkswagen model range…

SMALL CAR SYNDROME - When you’re tall, round and knockinng on for rugby player stature, what better car to make an animal than a 9N3 Polo GTI?

SELF-REFLECTION - Don’t let that Chrome Blue wrap confuse you into thinking this fourth-gen Golf is purely all-show and no go. As Bryan McCarthy discovers, it’s got plenty of ‘go’ to back up that show!

CIRCUIT TRAINING - While the latest hot hatches push ever further into supercar-worrying power fi gures, Clayton Jones’s meticulously track-honed Lupo is a giant-felling advocate for sticking to the old-school formula.

Mk2 GOLF 2.0T
All-wheel-drive Mk2 Golf with big-turbo boosted 465bhp in-line 20v conversion.

Mk3 POLO G40 
Immaculate Polo G40 recreation with R1 supercharger and the full works..

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
This 89 GTi started out in such poor shape the owner picked it up for just a couple of grand. Years of work later, though, and it’s a shining example of the VW breed.

WEIGHT WATCHERS
With an engine derived from the Audi S3 but less than half the overall mass, the KTM X-Bow can become a rather insane proposition when tinkered with, as Wimmer RS will now demonstrate with two of its most brutal examples…

FUTURE PERFECT
The number of electric cars we’ve
featured in PVW can be counted on your
fi ngers. But thankfully this mould-breaking
6N Polo shows us that an electric future is
looking increasingly bright...

THE BIG WEEKENDER
Goodwood’s Festival of Speed hasn’t
always been an event synonymous with
VAG metal, but since VW Motorsport stirred
things up with its IDR last year things its
certainly started to switch, especially as
they returned again for 2019!, ALPINE STARS
Once famed for the legendary SoWo events,
mid-May 2019 saw the Bavarian-style
village of Helen Georgia host a totally new,
slightly more relaxed gathering called Alpine
VAG Fair. Here’s how the show went down...

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