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Willkommen… to the website dedicated to fast German cars

February 1, 2009 by Matt Zollo  
Filed under Blog

Porsche 911 GT3It’s not that we don’t love other cars, because we do. Particularly fast ones. It’s just that what we love and appreciate about cars seems to be done best by the Germans. From an angry howl of M-Series straight-six, to a GT3 RS-induced sensory-overload, to a fun-packed Nurburgring lap in an RS4, to a big, luxury AMG saloon holding a 100 yard drift, to homologation-exoticness dripping from an classic eighties hot hatch…

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Mk5 Golf GTi Buying Guide

February 19, 2009 by Matt Zollo  
Filed under Features

VW Golf Mk5 GTi with Monza 18sAfter a two-generation snooze VW awoke well and truly rejuvenated with the Mk5 GTi. The plump and ponderous Mk3 and Mk4 had got us thinking VW had given up on hot hatches, so when the next GTi instalment arrived in early ‘05 there were gleeful whoops and wows of joy from all. It was fun, fast and much more focussed than before, but it was also as solid, sophisticated and stylish as ever. Four years on and its appeal hasn’t diminished but values have, leaving you to snaffle yourself a high-class hot hatch for a relatively low-rent price…

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