This Volkswagen American Rabbit pickup has been converted into a GTI

The American owner has given its Volkswagen Rabbit Pick-up a sporty GTI version. To make the results convincing, he drew from a large number of parts from several Volkswagen Golf GTIs of different vintages.

Metallic gray shade” Atomic Silver » is the essence of Lexus. The front panel has a close the front shield and without its indicators. It is one of the features taken from the sports version as well catcher of crumbs ahead, front windows or even two exterior mirrors. It depends on the car 14-inch ATS rims. He loses 40 mm long thanks to the presence of Bilstein coilovers. The rear is clean, as is the rear shield whose chrome is now very shiny. Icing on the cake, a GTI logo visible in the grille.

On board, velvet and red skin of the dashboard recalling the luxury of certain American productions. There dashboard and the perfect tool were borrowed from a Rabbit GTI Mk1 street There air conditioning and power steering were connected thanks to a collection of parts derived from the Golf Cabriolet.

The engine is 4 cylinder 1.8 112 hp borrowed from Volkswagen Golf II GTI 8S. It is associated with a new 5-speed manual gearbox.