That eighties show Part touring car, part Eighties throwback, and packing a 380bhp turbocharged 20-valve, Auto Finesse steps back into the spotlight with proof positive that you still haven’t seen every way to crack a Mk2.

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…

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...

SECRET MOTION: This stock-body 4Motion gives away few clues as to the mighty power hiding beneath. But with the addition of a turbo
and a lot of elbow grease, this Golf’s thrust more than justifies the smattering of sneaky supercar embellishments, THE DON Cars built purely to satisfy the owner rather than to follow trends or conforming with the ‘in crowd’ are often easy to spot. Don Santora’s unique Mk5 Golf is one of those very vehicles and we just can’t get enough of it. Here’s why...

CYBERPUNK: Joe Stackman’s Mk3 Variant carries an
interesting vibe: it’s a retro-futuristic upsetter, with an in-your-face attitude and a playful sense of fun. And it only owes him five grand, MOTION BLUR: We’ve been following the VWDRC for a number of years here at PVW and we were intrigued to see how its  first, all-new Heads UP gathering went.Paul Jacksonheading along to GTI Festival to find out...

Spanner Montana: When Jeff Norcross found this sleepy GTI languishing on Craigslist under an inch of dust, he knew just what to do: crack out the spanners and make it sing, see you on he street!: Last month we announced mountune52 – a new range of VAG tuning products by mountune and  fifteen52. This month we drive m52’s Golf R demo to see exactly
how those products translate on Tarmac!...

The Rallye brotherhood Two stories of polar opposite Rallyes that ‘you couldn’t write’ gave us one hell of a contrast, 30 years down the track, Elsecar 2019 For many northern VAG owners, Elsecar At The Races marks the start of the forthcoming show season and it’s become
a favourite place to debut those recently
completed winter projects...

THE LEISURE SOCIETY
Colin Burnside’s super-rare ‘Leisure’-
badged Mk1 Caddy came complete from
the factory sporting a GTI motor. And now
it’s been treated to some clean, subtle
upgrades throughout, it’s one weekend
toy that’s certainly living up to its name, beauty and the beast
This Royal blue Mk2 is pretty enough to be
the belle of the ball – but lurking beneath
that delicate skin is a brutal monster
poised to rip your heart right out...

Commercial Licence : When Gordon Higgins got chatting with
William Skelton of Dubnutz about creating something trick for his Mk2 project the two ended up hatching quite the plan!, BAHNSTORMIN’: Feeling like the latest Audi RS4 could’ve
been a little livelier from the factory, ABT Sportsline
took it upon itself to create 50 heavilyfettled, 170mph ‘RS4-R’s. And Billy Berridge here was lucky enough to get his hands on one...

Rare view: Despite modifi ed Mk5 Golfs being
extremely popular the second gen’ Leon, which shares the same platform, is a rare breed indeed. Riki Jones-Heaton’s example might just change a few people’s perception, When worlds collide: Built as a fi tting tribute to his late father,
Ray van de Berg’s brought together one
of VW’s most potent powertrains with its
very smallest of city cars to create this
rather insane ‘Lupo R’...

The million dollor man Jason Whipple’s ‘Million Dollar Scirocco’ project may not have actually cost him a million bucks, but given the blood, sweat and tears it’s robbed from him, it has certainly felt like it did at times!

Original pirate material When Stefan Olsson bought a cheap Lupo for commuting, that was good enough for a few years. But his day job in boatbuilding, coupled with his enthusiasm for horsepower, soon awoke the angry pirate in him…

Take it back to the old school Remember the days before credit card tuning and 0%  nance? We decided to take it back to those days in a bid to show how you can modify your car for less than a grand and create something actually quite desirable. Wish us luck!

Green lantern According to DC Comics, the essence of willpower is green. And Sam Noble’s A3 is clear evidence of that: through sheer grit and determination, his sensible daily has become an ever-evolving show-stopper

Hungary like a wolf: Hungary as a country doesn’t produce a whole load of feature car material, but
when they do pop up they’re usually pretty
special… like Gábor Végh’s US-spec marvel!, THE DUNN THING: Fed up with the same old new-wave Audis
lowered over a set of wheels? So were we. Charlie Dunn’s 615bhp supercharged RS4, however, isn’t like most other Audis even if it is bagged on 20s!...

Keep it in the family London Cartel’s regular meets in have become extremely popular, so when
the organisers decided to host its own International Auto Show we couldn’t wait to take a closer look, TOGETHER AS ONE The Air2Water VW Show does exactly
what it says on the tin, uniting Volkswagen
lovers from both sides of the camp in perfect harmony...

Speak easy: This month we kick off a series of audio
specials focusing on different areas of In-car Entertainment and we start with speakers, probably one of the most important places. After all, without speakers you get no sound!, Sound decisions Barry Selwood’s flawless Mk1 Cabriolet represents a fusion of aftermarket expertise: gorgeous body resto, meaty engine swap, on-point air install...

Inside job Neil Butler’s Bentley grey Mk1 may look pretty conventional externally, but delve a little deeper and all is not as it might see

Living for the weekend He may prefer to roll drab dirty diesels as his daily drives, but when Ross Wishard let’s off steam on the weekend it’s behind the wheel of this stunning VR6 turbo Mk2 Jetta Coupe.

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