You need this: The factory-supercharged, all-wheel-drive VW Golf

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

I need this car. 

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The wheels are berkeleying horrible.

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The stock G60 motor is the issue lol. 

I've always wondered what happened to the US spec press Golf Rallye from back in the day. I've seen someone selling US Spec Rallye headlights over on VWVortex years ago. Apparently there were 2 or 3 that were made for US spec. This magazine review from 89 was one of those cars. 

http://www.a2resource.com/brochures/1989/gtirallye/gtirallye.html

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The wheels are berkeleying horrible.

By “horrible” you mean “rad AF,” right? 

aw614 said:

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The stock G60 motor is the issue lol. 

Definitely not helping! Even replacing the charger, the engine is a pretty low compression, low flowing.. I don't have enough adjectives. Have worked on procharged and lysholm ones but the best are engine swapped. Then you get to replace the transmission and the rear diff when it explodes. At least VW made lots of awd parts cars 

I love this so much. Everything. The wheels, the G-ladder, the color.

Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

158 hp from forced induction 1.8 does not seem like a lot, but the first 6 years of the 1.8t were only 150, right? 14 years after we first got the G60 in the US, VW finally had the 20V 1.8t making more power for production options?

oh that's beautiful

Since this is already more money than I have to play with, I have to assume in another 4 days it will get much worse. I would totally daily that. Not with those wheels, mind you, but still.

Hmmmm. Might have to watch that one. Better not, but...

I don't see mention of a charger rebuild, though. That is a big "if" since missing a rebuild makes shrapnel.

buzzboy said:

I love this so much. Everything. The wheels, the G-ladder, the color.

Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

I think this more accurately describes how I feel about this car.

David S. Wallens said:

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The wheels are berkeleying horrible.

By “horrible” you mean “rad AF,” right? 

No, I'm pretty much mean "the worst feature of the car". But I could be wrong.

Awesome car. VW sucks at wheels.

David S. Wallens said:

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The wheels are berkeleying horrible.

By “horrible” you mean “rad AF,” right? 

No, I'm pretty sure he meant horrible.  They were undoubtedly expensive, but look like cheap wheelcovers from the discount auto parts store accessories aisle.

Duke said:

David S. Wallens said:

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The wheels are berkeleying horrible.

By “horrible” you mean “rad AF,” right? 

No, I'm pretty sure he meant horrible.  They were undoubtedly expensive, but look like cheap wheelcovers from the discount auto parts store accessories aisle.

 

Yep. Those wheels are F'n UGLY

The box flares.  Yes.  All of it.

More box flares sung to the tune of More Cowbell. 

This has been on my import list since way before they were legal to import.  They were 6-10k for years and are now 30k plus.  Such cool beasts!

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

David S. Wallens said:

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Colin Wood said:

There's just so much right with this–the flares, the color, the powertrain–what's not to love?

The wheels are berkeleying horrible.

By “horrible” you mean “rad AF,” right? 

No, I'm pretty much mean "the worst feature of the car". But I could be wrong.

The problem is to fit them they had to build a crappy spec; the face should be sandwich mount or even reverse or even even on the front of a huge lip and then they would look great. The face sticking out from the lips like that looks stupid.

Otherwise? Yes. To all of it.

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

The wheels are berkeleying horrible.

I'm a big fan of BBS mesh wheels, but the offset on those makes them look really weird.

matthewmcl said:

158 hp from forced induction 1.8 does not seem like a lot, but the first 6 years of the 1.8t were only 150, right? 14 years after we first got the G60 in the US, VW finally had the 20V 1.8t making more power for production options?

Due to the power curve the 1.8t definitely feels a lot faster.

chandler said:

The problem is to fit them they had to build a crappy spec;

I don't think so. Perfectly normal BBS mesh wheels have been going on VWs for decades. Somebody went to extra effort to build those abominations on purpose.

Sweet cars.  The G60 motor is hard to set up, even when fairly new most shops didn't know what to do.  With some bolt ons it's not hard to get the motor to 200+hp.  None of the rallye golfs had AC, the front mount intercooler is where the AC condenser would be.  These are stupidly expensive cars now...

matthewmcl said:

chandler said:

The problem is to fit them they had to build a crappy spec;

I don't think so. Perfectly normal BBS mesh wheels have been going on VWs for decades. Somebody went to extra effort to build those abominations on purpose.

To fit THOSE centers they had to, they could have built some from a smaller back pad set so they didn't look ridiculous instead.

Imagine what they could have looked like (not BBS but you get the idea)

I'm with Angry on this.  Those wheels are absolutely horrible.  They need to be buried somewhere so they dont show up on a different car.

No way could I go a week daily driving those wheels without accidentally curbing them.

GCrites said:

No way could I go a week daily driving those wheels without accidentally curbing them.

That's the thing, they are so over the top they detract from the car. A set of gold 16" BBS RS would be perfect.

chandler said:

matthewmcl said:

chandler said:

The problem is to fit them they had to build a crappy spec;

I don't think so. Perfectly normal BBS mesh wheels have been going on VWs for decades. Somebody went to extra effort to build those abominations on purpose.

To fit THOSE centers they had to, they could have built some from a smaller back pad set so they didn't look ridiculous instead.

 

Imagine what they could have looked like (not BBS but you get the idea)

We're all different. I never liked this wheel type - not because it looks bad, but because I can't help but imagine how much suck there is to clean them.

kb58 said: We're all different. I never liked this wheel type - not because it looks bad, but because I can't help but imagine how much suck there is to clean them.

There is that.  You have to be careful about choosing brake pads that don't generate a lot of dust.

Clean wheels on a car are like tires worn in the center on a motorcycle

I thought the wheels on the truck that dherr is looking at were bad.  Those might be the worst wheels I've ever had to expose my eyeballs to.

Those interior pictures took me right back to the A2 GTIs I've owned. May need some time to recover...