Rallye Golf
Long overdue post on the Rallye Golf. A peach of an example, too, with beautiful – flawless, really – paint, timeless three-piece BBS RSs, and a narrow-angle VR6 shoehorned into the engine bay. Enthusiasts and students of Volkswagen history will know what this is; for the uninitiated, it’s basically the R32 before there was the R32 (to put it simply but crudely), only far more exclusive (and with a lot more street cred):
In 1989, the Rallye Golf appeared as a rallye “homologation special”. Distinguishable by its box-flared wheel arches (similar to the Audi quattro, BMW E30 M3 and Lancia Delta Integrale) and rectangular headlamps, this model featured Syncro four-wheel drive, and a G-supercharger version of the injected 8 valve 1.8 litre engine. 5,000 cars were built in Volkswagen’s Brussels, Belgium, plant, priced at about DM 50,000 each (or roughly twice as much as a base Golf GTI). The Rallye Golf has 161Bhp (source).
A bona fide classic.
Images by Matt Stanton
Motoring Con Brio 
Wow. That is badass. So who invented that style of Fender flare? VW, BMW or Lancia?
Automobiliac said this on July 15, 2010 at 11:04 am
A VR in a Rallye body? Some things should just never be done…
tailhappy said this on July 16, 2010 at 1:46 am
I don’t have especially strong feelings about this conversion, though I do appreciate the idea of keeping a rare car like the Rallye relatively stock (of course, it doesn’t hurt that I think VRs sound fantastic). On the other hand, I do think, for example, that E30 M3s should retain the stock S14.
motoring con brio said this on July 16, 2010 at 9:02 am