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Volkswagen Goes Back To Its Roots With 2018 Up! GTI

Volkswagen has revisited the small but fast hot hatch category it helped to create over 40 years ago, not with a version of the Golf, but instead with the Up! GTI. Unveiled as part of the Woerthersee GTI festival in Austria, renowned for its outlandish


Volkswagen has revisited the small but fast hot hatch category it helped to create over 40 years ago, not with a version of the Golf, but instead with the Up! GTI.

Unveiled as part of the Woerthersee GTI festival in Austria, renowned for its outlandish concepts, the Up! GTI is not a flight-of-fancy concept, but a production preview set for launch in Europe in 2018.

Under the bonnet Volkswagen has installed it newest 1.0-litre turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine, and while 85kW may not sound immense, the standard Up! Peaks at 55kW, while the original Golf GTI could only muster 81kW.

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