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VOLKSWAGEN GTI ROADSTER, VISION GRAN TURISMO BREAKS COVER AT WORTHERSEE GTI FESTIVAL Concept car blurs the boundaries between the virtual and real worlds Wolfsburg / Reifnitz, May 2014 — At the annual GTI festival at Wörthersee, Austria, from May 28 to 31, Volkswagen will erase the boundaries between the virtual and real worlds. That is because the GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo is a Golf GTI show car that was originally created as a purely electronic CGI entity for the Sony PlayStation®3 classic “Gran Turismo 6″ (“GT6″). The two-seat convertible is powered by a 3.0-litre V6 twin-turbocharged TSI® engine that produces 503 horsepower and a mighty 413 pound-feet of torque between 4,000 and 6,000 rpm; from just 2,000 revs, 369 lb-ft of that torque is available. The power of the TSI engine is transferred to the 20-inch wheel-and-tire combination via a seven-speed DSG® dual-clutch automatic transmission and a 4MOTION all-wheel-drive system. The lightweight, 3133-pound sportscar sprints ...

UK contributor Si Gray reports that over a week into the experience that is Worthersee, the transition is beginning to happen. It’s not that anyone flips a switch, but at some point the event goes from laid back albeit gigantic gathering to equally gigantic party. The tone changes and so too do the attendees and cars. According to Si, police enforcement has also begun to step up. Fines are being handed out for more and more. Cars are rotating in and out. Construction of the corporate presence from companies like Volkswagen has now begun in earnest. You can see the massive VW stage rising up in the center of town. For the group that tends to come early, it is about that time to pack up and head out. Having been filing all of these reports and shooting specific cars at dedicated locations for days now, Si is getting ready to hit the road for a circuitous route home. He says we should have one more day of galleries before he heads out, which will round out an even dozen. With his im...