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Wörthersee 2015 Photo Gallery: Day 9

Alas, the all things VAG festival of Wörthersee in Austria has ended its multi-week go. The corporate presence from brands like Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT and Skoda are firmly in place and the final “official” days are now over.

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Our own Jamie Vondruska popped in during the craziness of the official days and has submitted several hundred photos from his 24-hour pop into the small Austrian town of Reifnitz. Each has been added to our photo galleries, both separated by model and also clustered together into one folder of contributions from Vondruska.

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As you can see, the highlight of the official days is the corporate presence. For Volkswagen, this meant pulling the wraps off of the Golf GTE Sport Concept along with other featured cars in the Volkswagen stand. These also included a Golf Sportwagen BiTurbo TDI, a Golf R Color Concept, the Apprentices’ Golf GTI Dark Shine design study and various other models.

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Those watching our coverage closely will note the difference in public days. The volume of enthusiasts and cars has grown exponentially. Even still, with grown numbers also means a drop in overall quality of builds if not outrageousness. More of the extensive builds during these days go to corporate presences like Abt Sportsline and Oettinger.

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We’ll have a more thorough summary of the event and a few more news items stemming from Wörthersee throughout the week. In addition to our continuing Worthersee coverage, our staff is also hard at work on a recap of this year’s Southern Wörthersee in Helen, GA, and the Nurburgring 24 Hour race that also happened last weekend.

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See more photos from Jamie Vondruska’s quick visit to official days at Wörthersee in our photo gallery  linked in the usual spots below and also to the right of this story.

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