Tag: Golf

The Golf GTI’s secret Northern Irish ancestry

The town of Ballymena sits more or less in the dead centre of Northern Ireland. Halfway between Belfast and Derry, it’s a typical country market town, built around an old town square that’s been modernised with a shopping centre. Mostly, it’s famous for being the hometown of Liam Neeson but for one brief moment, Ballymena […]

Hot Hatch – featuring the Volkswagen Golf VR6

To whoever coined the phrase “hot hatch” – thank you. I say thank you because it’s made talking about the subject a hell of a lot easier. And as car nuts, we tend to talk about the little pocket rockets quite a lot (also a good phrase – thank you).  Car manufacturers and consumers alike […]

Volkswagen Golf GTD: 35 years of fast and frugal fun

GTD front

The Volkswagen Golf has been a pioneer for the past four decades. Style, quality, and refinement have elevated VW’s classless hatchback above the family car norm. And that’s without mention of its most famous iteration, the GTI. But, there’s another performance Golf family member which has been arguably as important: say ‘hello’ to the GTD, […]

An interview with custom legend, Pipey McGraw

Pipey McGraw

Danni Bagnall: Pipey, how did you get into modifying cars? Pipey McGraw: I’ve always been into cars. As a kid, I loved old muscle cars; big, old, brash v8s and the like. On maybe my 12th or 13th birthday my Grandad arranged for a mate of his to take me out in a ‘71 Boss […]