FUTURE MODELS
Volkswagen cranking Up performance a notch or two to earn exclamation mark
Volkswagen’s Up gets the big engine to make the smallest GTi writes Michael Taylor
25 May 2017 - 07:21
Has Volkswagen’s smallest car finally earned its exclamation mark? The tiny Up! (the exclamation mark is a VW marketing thing) will become the Up GTi at May’s Lake Worthesee GTi festival. It might be two classes below the current Golf Mark 7.5 but it is surprisingly close in specification to the original 1976 Mark I Golf GTi. Despite running a boosted-up version of the base Up three-cylinder, 1.0l, turbocharged engine, the GTi has more power, more torque and more speed than the original Golf GTi, which sparked the hot-hatch revolution in its day.
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