Then marketed as the Rabbit GTI in the United States, the 1983 Vee Dub we’ll talk about today was featured on Wheeler Dealers. After starring on television alongside Mike Brewer and Ant Anstead, the ...

The car-geek bug stings everyone differently. It happened to me in 1985, when my father dragged me along to the local Ford dealership to check out a used Ford Tempo. No, it wasn't the Tempo--the ...

Derek Spratt’s story starts like a lot of collector car stories: He had a GTI in college but eventually moved along to another car. After nostalgia got the better of him, he chased down a similarly ...

Over seven years, Derek Spratt poured tens of thousands of dollars in parts and 12,000 hours of labor into creating his vision of an ultimate first-generation Volkswagen GTI. Then he gave it away, ...