Mystery Volkswagen GTI Performance Concept Presented at 2008 GTI Meet

Volkswagen GTI Performance Concept

By Clinton Deacon
May 22, 2008 1:24 pm
Filed Under: Concept Car, German, Volkswagen

The Wörthersee GTI Meet is taken very seriously by Volkswagen, take the insane GTI W12 650 Concept for example which was unveiled at last years event alongside the Audi TT Clubsport. This year sees a mystery Volkswagen GTI Performance Concept displayed although the German manufacturer has failed to provide any information about it leaving us to analyse the vehicle with our well trained eyes.

The striking exterior gets a widebody styling kit with lowered suspension and sport wheels which aerodynamically help enhance driving performance. When we get round to the rear we find 2 huge trapezoidal exausts tips surrounded by a few oversized wire mesh screens. Look up into the boot to find a couple of nitrous oxide tanks and customized trimmings to make it look stock. The black and orange sports livery coupled with the quite pointless Lambo Styled Doors (LSD) complete the look. The black and orange color scheme continues in the interior which reveals a 2+1 seating layout leaving extra room in the rear for an over-the-top audio system.

The lack of publicity surrounding this vehicle suggests this is nothing more than a show car, but we can always hope for more.

Source: VW

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Comments

Joe_Limon

May 22, 2008 7:26 pm

Wow, it looks like it was ripped straight out of nfs.

carcrazy1234

May 23, 2008 1:38 am

that's a clean ride... nothing rice about it (cars in nfs are riced...)... there's no ridiculous spoiler, and the rims actually look nice :) everything except for the checkers inside and the random back seat (with different COLOURS!?!?) is quite good.

Joe_Limon

May 23, 2008 12:24 pm

theres nothing riced about it? how bout the lambo doors, whack paint job, super aggressive front bumper, tires that have virtually no room left for air, over exagerated wheel flairs, and interior that looks as if it was bought half off from a after market tuner. Seriously, just because wcf posts a car, doesn't mean it isn't rice.

carcrazy1234

May 24, 2008 9:12 am

you are right on the paintjob. BUT "The striking exterior gets a widebody styling kit with lowered suspension and sport wheels which aerodynamically help enhance driving performance."... they actually DO something to the cars performance. Riced is when people add pointless, oversized, wacklooking bits to their car for looks instead of performance (you can't argue with that man lol)...i mean check this picture out, because that's riced... http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9314/civic4oq1.jpg ... i'd call this a tuner, but not a riced up ride

122

May 23, 2008 6:30 am

The checker style seats are quite an eyeful to look at.

catch22

May 23, 2008 9:49 am

Horrible! :)

Get_real

May 23, 2008 10:04 pm

Don't know 100% what you mean with 'riced' but from what I imagine, it's just that.

The concept 650 they showed last time looked like it came from VW (which it was), this looks like a tasteless tuner product.

jphxr

May 24, 2008 10:04 pm

agreed, the 650 was tastefully done. this thing is just way too flamboyant :(

ayoub

May 24, 2008 4:24 am

wooooooooooooooow im a crazy gti fan.. i even have one... love 2 have this one..its hot sexy and it has every thing u want in it....more will come ur way ones u take it 4 a drive :)

The_woo_factor

May 24, 2008 6:17 am

can someone explain the riced bits?

tootall

May 24, 2008 10:56 pm

To answer your queston woo_ factor. The trem "Riced" is used normaly to described an over exaggerated, flamboyantly modyfied car (typically of an Asian brand). As for my opinion on this one... I think that the body kit is a bit too much, like wise the paint job. The rims however, are pretty nice, the "Lambo" doors are an ok touch too (personally I don't think that the doors are capable of being of a "riced" stigma. Simply because..... They're "Lambo" doors). But the car dose appear to be a bit over the top over all. It's not your low-key, reserved VW.