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Quite simply GTI stands for Grand Touring Injection, originating from the Italian Gran Turismo Iniezione. To us at Awesome GTI it means a car we can tune, modify and enjoy! We have been tuning GTI’s since 1989 and now, all VAG vehicles from Amarok to Yeti and everything in between. The GTI started it for us, but it doesn’t end there! Common questions we are asked are… Is the Golf GTI faster than an R? – well, like for like out of the box no, however with some tuning, ma …

Is The GTI getting discontinued? As the automotive world moves more towards EV or alternative fuels (we won’t begin to get into that just yet!) the question of whether VW will discontinue the GTI is more often on the lips of its fans than ever! Looking briefly online and in other sources we don’t believe that VW would discontinue the GTI and in fact may not even discontinue the ICE engines found in them at least into the next decade. So…. what if they did? What would we do? We …

What year is GTI the most Reliable? In this blog we will touch on some of the issues and characteristics of the original hot hatch in its many forms and models…. The Golf GTI has been on our roads since 1976 and currently in 2025, there have been 8 models (plus facelifts) of this highly coveted hot hatch!The Mk1’s are becoming very rare now as many have been subject to rust and old father time catching up with them, the ones that are left are usually fine examples and if they still …