One to challenge VW’s genre-defining Golf GTI, no less ... which pronounced a dead heat between the GTE and a Mk1 GTI, convincingly beating the Alfasud Ti Green Cloverleaf and Ford’s XR3i ...

With a kerb weight of just 810kg, the GTI could get to 60mph in 9 seconds. Top speed was 110mph. Available only as a three-door, the Golf GTI went on sale in Germany in June 1976. A handful of ...