How do you turn Volkswagen’s Golf from a fun (if dull) hatch into a fire-breathing monster? You lean over into the Audi parts bin and grab the 2.5-liter five-pot that’s normally found in cars like the RS3. Then you drop on a carbon fiber body and turn the boost up until it makes more than 1,000 horsepower. This is no ordinary Golf, obviously. It’s a car built for VW Motorsport in South Africa, and it’s made for crushing hill climb and time attack events.
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