Volkswagen Polo GTI (FF/6AT)/UP! GTI (FF/6MT) [Test drive] This is the GTI style

Special name for Volkswagen

Each brand has a traditional naming that convinces that it is unconditionally special.For example, if you ask "AMG", you can quickly understand that it is a very exclusive high -performance model in Mercedes.If it is a BMW model with the title of "M", Porsche is "GTS", and if it is Lamborghini, "Super Reagerer" is the case.Nowadays, it has become an independent naming, but Nissan's (Skyline) "GT-R" and Honda's "Type R" are also traditional emblems that everyone special.

If you search for such special naming in Volkswagen, "GTI" corresponds to that.As you know, the GTI series has been handed down by golf generations without interruption since the first "Golf GTI" appeared in Europe in 1976.As an aside, the Golf GTI has a total production of over 2.2 million units in the series, and has sold a total of 60,000 units in Japan.It is said that this sales are a great achievement in the top five in the global market.

This time, in the Japanese market, the A, B and C segment GTI series 3 models have been released for the first time in about 13 years, led by golf, which has already been lined up as a catalog model.The limited edition of the A -Seg, UP! GTI and C -Seg special specification car "Golf GTI Dynamic" will be released on June 8, 2018, and the new B -Seg Polo GTI will be released as a catalog model on July 3, the same year.UP! GTI is limited to 600 units, and "Golf GTI Dynamic" is limited to 100 of the 6 -stage DSG specification and 6 -stage MT specifications.

By the way, "GTI" is an abbreviation of "Gran Turismo Injection", and it is said that it is said that it is now too natural to say, but it comes from the fact that fuel injection has been adopted for the first time as a high -performance model of golf.The 1976 Frankfurt show was the world premiere.It is two years after the birth of the first golf, and it has been more than 40 years ago, but the feeling of a different world is not wiped out there.