The Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport 45 anniversary edition marks the original hot hatch’s 45th birthday – and will cost from less than £40,000 when it arrives in the UK this April.
Based on the 300hp Golf GTI Clubsport, the Clubsport 45 edition celebrates a car that itself was only intended to be a limited-run special edition.
The original plan to build 5,000 has swelled over the decades to more than 2.3 million Golf GTI today.
Volkswagen calls the Clubsport 45 a “ready-made collector’s item” with plenty of individual customisation features.
It comes as standard with a Race package, which includes 19-inch high-gloss black Scottsdale alloy wheels, complete with narrow pinstripe in Tornado Red.
A matching black roof, black roof spoiler and black-frame rear window are all a tribute to the first Golf GTI, says VW.
There’s a sports exhaust system, IQ.Light LED matrix headlights and ‘45’ lettering on the side sills and boot lid.
There is another ‘45’ logo on the steering wheel centre spoke, and GTI lettering on the front seats.
Impressively, Volkswagen has removed the speed limiter of the Clubsport 45, although it has yet to disclose how much faster than 155mph the new special edition can go.
More details of the new car will follow closer to its UK on-sale date. Party hats at the ready.
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