The new VW up! GTI Interior Design

The new VW up! GTI continues the creed of the lightweight and no-frills sports car with a compact format: lots of power in a compact, snappily designed, fun-to-drive and fuel-efficient car. In 1976, a compact car such as the Golf was similar in size to a 2018 city runabout such as the up! The up! GTI, for instance is 3,600 mm long, 1,478 mm high and 1,641 mm wide (excluding wing mirrors). It is thus 105 mm shorter than a Golf GTI Mk1, while being 88 mm taller and 13 mm wider. The interior of the new model scores with spaciousness on a par with the original GTI. Added to that is the drive system DNA of the modern era - a 200 Nm turbocharged engine. Fitting neatly into the just as sharply designed body of the Volkswagen up! GTI, it sees the concept of the first Golf GTI celebrate a sensational comeback.