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Thirty -five years a serious age for any model. And few in the automobile world can boast that he has not even a model in a gamut, but just a modification that has been produced without a break for so many years.

But Volkswagen can. And although GTI is really only heated golf, three letters in its names for any autophanate say a lot. The fact is that it was Golf GTI in the distant 1976 that became the ancestor of the whole class of inexpensive front -wheel drive hatchbacks with a forced motor and a more rigid suspension, which on a winding road could ask many sportsmen.

And now, after 35 years, the expression of the hot hatch was so established in the car vocabulary that few people think about its roots. Volkswagen not only thought, but also decided to launch the anniversary version of the very first hot hatchback.


Outside, the anniversary Golf GTI 35 is easiest to find out by modest nameplates 35 on the front wings and a slightly modified front bumper with a carbon splitter. More attentive connoisseurs will notice the optional bi-ksenon with the headlights of the lateral light and the LEDs in front and behind.

Golf GTI has long proved everything for everyone: it was originally planned to produce only 5,000 cars with Ji-Tie Schildik, but the demand turned out to be so high that now the sixth generation of the hotel is already on the conveyor, and the total number of GTI, which is knitting along the roads of all Mira, has already exceeded the mark of 2 million! Any other hot hatchback can only dream of such success.


For VW Golf GTI 35 Edition, nine coloring options are provided: three monochrome (Candy White, Tornado Red and Black), four metallics (Carbon Steel Grey, Reflex Silver, Shadow Blue and United Grey) and two pearl (Blue Graphaite and Deep Black).

How do this kind of special versions from civilian models usually differ in appearance? Interior details, nameplate, and maybe a body kit. And all this has all this Edition: the front bumper is a slightly different shape, an unpainted carbon lip under it, bi-ksenon and rotary headlights. Plus, specially for the hero of the day they came up with new wheel discs, the numbers 35 were glued to the wings, and the front seats were decorated with the same numbers.

Interior


From a simple Golf GTI, the 35-year-old version inside is distinguished only by details: 35 logos on the backs of the front seats and a bright red sequel, steering wheel, parking brake covers and gearbox lever.


The proprietary feature of the GTI cage made of fabric into the traditional golf cell. Otherwise, you can’t call them amazing. Even minimal mechanical adjustments are enough for the eyes. Small but interesting stroke: Red Kant on seat belts.


Do not forget that Golf GTI grew out of the usual golf-class hatchback. Therefore, the trunk here is quite standard for machines of this segment: the volume is from 305 to 1305 liters, but the posterior floor is not possible when folding the backs of the rear seats.

The interior was also stacked in a circle of red thread, added the opportunity to order optional leather and alcantara chairs. But we have basic, rag, in the Scottish cage. Absolutely ordinary, but how good! Recently, these are the best seats in which I sat. An example of how to make a chair comfortable, but at the same time athletic, with excellent support for both the back and for the legs. You can only find fault with a rather high landing: in a car claiming the title of sports, I would like to be closer to the ground. Yes, and the steering wheel, lowered down, greatly blocks the instrument panel. But this is a traditional feature for all modern Volkswagen that we are already used to.


1. Slowly the traditional checkered textile seats Golfa for a 35-year-old model, you can order chairs with combined decoration of Vienna and Alcantara. But adjustments will still be mechanical.
2. Volkswagen cars are always fine with the clarity of switching at the mechanical transmission, but GTI is even better. Yes, and the DSG robot in the sports mode is not inferior in the rate of fire to the tester-tester: acceleration to hundreds of mechanics and DSG coincides with an accuracy of tenths of a second.
3. Another distinctive feature of the anniversary-memory logo with the number 35 on the threshold. Each time, sitting down in the car, he will hint, albeit about the relative, but still exclusivity of the model.

In addition to all these designer fetishes, the Germans prepared their fans, and there will probably be a majority among future buyers, another gift: the Golf GTI 35 Edition is installed, the power of which, in honor of the anniversary, is increased to 235 horsepower. The increase of 25 horses is not God the news, but, nevertheless, it is.


Under the hood of the anniversary golf, the next reading of the old-free 2-fiber 2-frail turbo engine EA113, familiar from the former charged models of the VAG concern, which, by the way, is also used on the current Golf R. This power unit can be configured without any problems for any power of 180 To almost 300 horsepower. In the option for Golf GTI 35 Edition, a turbo-fame develops 235 forces.

The new motor goes to passport power at the same 5500 revolutions per minute as the 210 -horsepower engine of the usual GTI, but the torque increased by 20 nm and is reached a little later in the range from 2200 to 5500 revolutions, unlike 1700-5200 standard modification.


Golf GTI is always strict and tightened. Regardless of age and version.

For real fans of the hotel, it is no secret that the Golf GTI machine-company. Probably, just because the Volkswagenists, who had long produced charged golf, were the first to learn how to combine sport and everyday life in one car. In addition, having the opportunity to be five -door, the modern Golf GTI remains a completely normal means of movement for every day. A powerful motor will never be superfluous, and the chassis is in such a way that it allows you to go to work on business, when you do not want any races at all, absolutely without prejudice to its fifth point and hard shocks to the lower back. But when a desire to light up, GTI will gladly support this initiative, and his elastic, assembled suspension will immediately gather in a fist and clearly show that for 35 years this is not old age, this is only the very heyday.


In turns, Golf GTI behaves calmly, confidently, if not calmly. This car does not burn hands through the steering wheel, but it goes surprisingly quickly for the front -wheel drive.

Roads along the shores of Maine and winding ligaments on the way to Nürburgring, who seem to prepare a driver for a meeting with the most difficult racing highway on the ground, approached the best possible to get acquainted with the anniversary. There was all quite long straight lines to feel the power of the motor and once again listen to the shootout of the muffler pipes when changing gears and tasty exciting when switching to low, and different cooles of turns that allow you to evaluate the GTI chassis.


The modernized engine made a jubilee hot hatch even more universal: a 300-nm moment shelf is so wide that the DSG robot is not often required to bother to change the steps. Although this exercise is given to him with already familiar ease and predictability.

In sports mode, the DSG almost leaves no chance to work for himself: there is simply no need to pull for very comfortable steering petals. It is only a pity that the pre-sequenter robot still does not always understand that the car is in a bend and that at this moment it is not necessary to juggle gears. But this problem can be avoided if you really put it on the whole coil: then the robot will keep even higher speeds and will not rush to switch to increased gear.


Adjusting the stiffness of shock absorbers and the steering force on the steering wheel (Comfort Normal Sport) is very speculative. The difference between the modes is not very great. Even in the SPORT position, the car does not become extremely hard, and even despite the suspension underestimated by 15 millimeters, the suspension is not much inferior in comfort to ordinary golf.

The suspension is an incredible balance of sports and comfort. I deliberately shake the keyboardness of shock absorbers, transferring them to the Sport position, the difference with normal characteristics is noticeable, but not much. The stability of the car in high-speed turns is very high. Another quick ligament seems to go too fast and are already preparing to straighten the trajectory as much as possible to avoid demolition, but it is not at all in sight. Moreover, GTI 35 did not even squeak with tires! Good, infection!


At the output of the hatchback turns, the electronic imitation of the differential blocking helps, which does not allow the unloaded front wheel to slip.

The turn over the bend is increasing the speed of the pace, which manages to maintain the GTI 35 is already close to the maximum for the front -wheel drive, and the car still calmly dives into the next ligament. This golf does not need to fight, it is simple, understandable and allows you to quickly go even beginners. And there are enough brakes when driving without problems. Singing the car to the floor before every turn, I did not feel any signs of overheating.

The information on the steering wheel is transparent and clear, like the letters of the SB in the office of the ophthalmologist. Plus, the almost neutral balance of rotation to such a chassis could be given a motor and more powerful.


Here they are Golf GTI the first and Golf GTI at the moment the last. The ancestor of the Hot-Hatch clan was born in 1976. It was planned to modestly release 5,000 hot modification machines, but as a result, the total circulation of Volkswagen Golf GTI exceeded the mark of 2 million cars.

I wonder how the more powerful, 270-horsepower Golf R was driving on the same roads. Faster? If so, how much?

My interest is not just theoretical, because Golf R will soon appear in Russia and at the same time will be equipped with a similar to the anniversary GTI in power by a motor, deformed up to 255 horsepower! True, Erka is equipped with all -wheel drive and in our market it will cost more than one and a half million rubles, while the price of version 35 is promised to be kept at the level of ordinary GTI. That is, almost 400 thousand cheaper than the version of R. And this means that becoming the owner of the anniversary version will be quite accessible to many fans of hot hatchbacks.


In the standard VW Golf GTI 35 is equipped with 18-inch discs with dimensions 235/40. But you can order the 19th wheels of such a hip black and white design with rubber 225/35. Brake discs in front are ventilated, with a diameter of 312 millimeters, the usual is ordinary 272 millimeters.

And do not see that the most famous golf this year turns 35 years old. There are things that only become better with age, and the anniversary version of VW Golf GTI is one of them.

Alternative
Seat has recently been pursuing a rather competent pricing policy. The result of Leon Cupra costs 1,099,990 rubles. This is a very good offer for today. Leona has front -wheel drive and 6 -speed mechanics. The power of the same 2.0 TFSI has been brought to 240 horsepower. You can ride on 95th gasoline.

Mazda, on the contrary, is the road due to the course of Yena. Therefore, MPS has now become more expensive than Leon Cupra-1 181 000 rubles. True, Mazda is more powerful, she has 260 horsepower. The transmission, like the Seat, is a pen with six steps and front -wheel drive. Mazda officially does not approve of the 95th refueling.

The 2.0 TFSI engine on Scirocco develops the same 210 horsepower as on the usual Golf GTI. But Scirocco is even more selfish than a golf three-door, although it is essentially the same hatchback. For a 210-horsepower car, only a 6-speed DSG is offered. Price from 1 196 000 rubles.

Technical characteristics VW Golf GTI Edition 35
6 MKPP / 6DSG
Type of engine R4 gasoline with turbocharged
Working volume, cm 1984
Max. Power, L.S./rpm 235/5500
Max. moment, nm/rpm 300/2200 5500
Type of drive front
Front suspension Independent McPherson
Rear suspension Independent multi -link with a stabilizer
Brakes Disc ventilated in front and ZAD
Dimensions (DHSHHV), mm 4.213x1.779x1.469
Wheel base, mm 2578
Road clearance, mm -
Equipped mass, kg 1401
Max. Speed, km/hour 247
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, from 6.6
Fuel consumption (comb.), L/100 km 8.1
Luggage compartment volume, l 350 1305
Fuel tank volume, l 55
Size 235/40 R18 225/35 R19
price, rub. n/d

Dmitry Krotov
Photo by the author and company Volkswagen
 

Source: Motor magazine [July 2011]