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Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk VI
With the incoming Focus RS monopolising REM sleep for most of our hot hatch
devotees, the Mk VI Golf GTI might have slipped unnoticed onto our streets this
summer. But it won't for two reasons. The first is that it is very good. The
other, that it's been styled in the way that an RS aficionado would approve of.
That he might have done himself, in fact, through mail order catalogues and
Superglue.
Volkswagen has taken the truly excellent Mk V GTI and tweaked it in various
vital respects. The engine is slightly lighter, but provides more power with
better economy. It now has a limited slip diff to better harness that extra
power, and an adaptive chassis that does comfy, not so comfy, and sporty at the
touch of a button. The exhaust note is also astonishing and surely unprecedented
in a 2.0-litre German hatchback.
So far so good. Positive progress. But the new GTI has also been restyled in a
fashion that seems intended to deprive the aftermarket modders of much in the
way of Sunday afternoon fun. New grille, headlights and fog lights at the front,
new side skirts and wider, symmetrical exhausts at the rear. The wheels have
also had their inserts painted black. None of this looks bad per se, but it's
all a teeny bit like a first date in Nandos. Mind you, the Focus RS driver is in
the Chicken Cottage.
The world’s fastest BMW
We do, from time to time, give a bit of a kicking to horrendous, misguided
Teutonic tuning jobs. Like that Cayenne of Death. But sometimes, sometimes, a
modified car turns up that makes us think, ‘Hey, you know, just maybe...'
Like this M6 Hurricane (what is it with the Germans and wind-based names?) by
tuning house G-Power. It looks good, and it goes like effluvium off a
particularly sturdy spade-like device.
How does 0-62mph in 4.4 seconds, 124mph in less than 10 seconds and a top speed
of 228mph grab you? Quite roughly, we suspect.
That makes the Hurricane the fastest BMW coupe in the world, all thanks to the
M6's 5.0-litre V10 - equipped with a shiny new pair of belt-driven superchargers
- putting out a massive 750bhp and 590lb ft of torque, some 50 per cent more
than the stock M6.
G-Power says this is a fairly conservative state of tune, and that the wick
could easily be turned up to a full 900bhp. Yowch.
Naturally, the Hurricane gets a fat body kit, adjustable suspension and
impressive 21-inch wheels. Are we quietly losing the plot, or is the Hurricane
actually quite cool? Thoughts please...
Tyre fighter
It was never going to take long. With Cadillac finally getting round to
making a proper muscle car – the M5-rivalling CTS-V – the tuning houses and
their greasy spanners were sure to be close behind it.
Enter, then, Hennessey Performance, the Texas-based tuning firm responsible for
the mad ZR1-engined Camaro.
Evidently deciding that the CTS-V’s 550bhp supercharged V8 was a bit, well,
underpowered, they’ve treated the 6.2-litre unit to a brace of massive turbos,
new camshafts, external wastegates and, er, lots of other big shiny things that
make a sort of clanging noise when you hit them with a monkey wrench.
The result? An unhinged 800bhp and 780lb ft of torque, good for a 0-60mph time
under three seconds (sweet lord) and a quarter-mile time under ten seconds.
Sheesh.
Even better, the Hennessey CTS-V looks near-enough stock, save for a new set of
20-inch wheels.
OK, it’s still not much of a sleeper – the gaping front grille does for that –
but it’s a hell of a lot subtler than, say, Satan’s own Cayenne…
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