Hill climbs combine the best parts of rallying and circuit racing, and the relative unlikeliness of running into another car attracts some of the classic cars that aren’t owned by crazy billionaires—like the crazy people who run at Goodwood, God bless them.
Simon Wüthrich is one such sane person with a classic, driving a heavily modified, four-wheel-drive, 424 hp Golf 2 and his exploits have been posted to YouTube.
The video shows a couple of hill climbs at a couple of locations in Switzerland. According to the video, the Golf was racing in the summer of last year.
Not only does this Golf look great with its fender flares and headlight-less, blacked out grille, it’s a serious performer, too. Inside it’s been completely emptied out of anything non-essential, and it sounds like a race car ought to, raw.
As mentioned above, according to the video description, the car is running 424 hp and 368 lb-ft of torque. Perhaps the most applause-worthy detail, though, is that it only weighs 2050 lbs.
Watching it climb through alpine foothills is a thing of beauty. Makes me wish I had a car like that. Or talent like that. Or roads like that. Or hills like that… sigh
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