EVER SINCE the Mk 2 Golf generation, with the advent of the 16-valve version in 1988, the Golf line-up has always had an even higher performance 'hot-hatch' variant of the GTI, offering an extra aspirational target at the top of the road-going range. But it was in 1989 that the 'super hot-hatch' theme really started to take off, when Volkswagen came up with the Rallye Golf G60 version of the Mk 2, as a motorsport homologation special. There was already a Golf G60, with the same supercharged 1.8-litre 8-valve engine as the Corrado, and a Golf Syncro with a viscous coupling four-wheel drive system, but these features were combined together in the 2-door Rallye, along with some special flared wheelarches, 6x15 Sebring alloys and a high-spec Recaro interior, to form a highly distinctive high-performance road car.
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