Review: the VW Golf GTI Clubsport Edition 40

So, this is the fastest front-drive hatch around the Nürburgring? No. Wrong Golf GTI(with android 2 din car stereo？ On paper, that looks a bit contrived, like VW is overcomplicating matters and shortchanging you when Seat’s latest Leon Cupra serves up the full 286bhp whenever you like. And given this Clubsport is a £30,935 car – just £250 less than the all-wheel drive Golf R, no less – well, it’s all in danger of seeming futile. Why bother? Go on then, why? Because this is a tremendous car. Honestly, one of the very best I’ve driven in 2016. All of the confusing spec nonsense floats out of the window when you give the Clubsport a bit of stick, and discover what this car does is take the very likeable – but slightly untaxing – Golf GTI, and ramp up the aggression in every single department, without ruining any of the day-to-day ability. I’d personally like to drive one of these round to the house of every armchair critic I see whining on how ‘boring’ hot Golfs are, and sit them in the bolstered bucket seat of a Clubsport for twenty minutes. That’d do the trick. If you have another opel car, you can install a