![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither the turbodiesel’s 90 hp nor the 2-liter’s 115 is likely to stir the soul. Never mind that it had skinny tires and a mere 90 hp, it spawned a host of imitators and convinced us that even though fuel prices seemed to be heading skyward, driving fun had not been eliminated along with the fire-breathing, big-block V-8.Īlmost 20 years later, they’re still at it, offering up a pair of potent alternatives to the more pedestrian Golf, which is available for 2002 with either a service-able 2-liter gas engine or an abstemious turbodiesel. The Volkswagen GTI, it can be argued, is the one that showed America that small cars can be fun.īack in the early ’80s, Volkswagen produced it as a sporty variant on the Rabbit theme.
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