Hints and tips:
...Today, Car & Classic lists more than 20 GTIs for sale, ranging from £3,995 to £26,000 for a 1988 205 GTI modified by German firm Gutmann....
...Especially popular are the Mk1 and Mk2 Ford Escorts that dominated the sport in the 1970s, raced by stars such as Roger Clark and Timo Mäkinen....
...Causeway has just completed an investment in Group GTI, a provider of media, data and technology to the graduate recruitment market in the UK and Ireland....
...That accolade goes to a red 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport Scaglietti, sold in Paris for €32m (more than £25m)....
...Introduced in 1962, the V12 sports racer was born on the cusp of obsolescence, the last stand of the fierce front-engined Ferraris....
...He referred to VW’s experience with its Golf compact car in China, where 80 per cent of units being sold are in the GTI sports version....
...Before the Tesla, the most powerful car I had ever driven was a VW Golf GTi, so I was somewhat nervous....
...Some of them, such as the Golf GTI hatchback and the Tiguan long wheelbase sports utility car, were already introduced in the first quarter....
...Le Mans and other sports successes notwithstanding, the past couple of decades have done little to burnish Peugeot’s image....
...Other vehicles remembered with affection include a nifty Mazda Familia in Japan, a VW Golf GTI in Europe and, in the US, a quirky Saab, which expired, naturally, on the New Jersey Turnpike, and a reliable...
...He recently switched from a BMW 3-Series luxury executive car to a cheaper Volkswagen GTI. “The higher cost of living really took over,” he says....
...consider Ford Focus RS £26,295; VW Golf Gti £23,015...
...In 2008, it won the GTI class in the Le Mans 24-hour race....
...VW intends to continue selling its high-end version of the Golf, known as the GTI in the US, to protect its image....
...Audi and Volkswagen owners will say this is old hat, that their TT’s and Golf GTI’s have had double-clutch gearboxes for years....
...It boasts sports styling – twin exhausts and something that is as close to a spoiler as VW comes – but in a less aggressive form than the GTi, which remains a generation’s favourite understated sports hatch...
...Indeed, whereas the Golf Mark 1 GTi in 1981 weighed 900kg, its rather more sophisticated 170GT counterpart now weighs nearly 1,400kg....
...231g/km CO2 You might also like: Audi A3 3.2V6 Quattro Sport (£25,185); Ford Focus ST (£19,395), Honda Civic Type R (£16,975), Renault Mégane Renaultsport 225 (£20,000), Volkswagen Golf GTi (£20,860)...
...One is Target Chances, an initiative set up by GTI, the graduate careers publisher, which runs skills sessions and networking events to help graduates from groups that are under-represented in the workplace...
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