The Volkswagen presentations at the ongoing GTI Festival at the Wörthersee Lake in Austria continue with the unveiling of a special design study designed and built from start to end by a group of young apprentices from the company’s Wolfsburg and Osnabrück plants.
All in all, thirteen “junior” talents, including four women and nine men from 17 to 23 years of age, from automotive mechatronics technicians and vehicle interior fitters to technical model makers and paint technicians, worked together for a year to create the Golf GTI Cabrio study.
Finished in a Oryx White mother-of-pearl shade with red stripes and accents, the team further customized the appearance of the Golf GTI Cabriolet Mk6-based model with different alloy wheels and red brake calipers.
Inside, the four-seat layout gives its place to two black-red-white Recaro sports seats with red “Austria” embroidering and red-white decorative trim, while the apprentices also added white GTI lettering on the doors, red accent stitching on the leather steering wheel and the DSG gearbox’s boot, plus a sound system with eleven loud speakers with 2,250 watts output.
In addition, they reworked the GTI’s boosted 2.0-liter engine that now generates 328hp (333PS / 245kW).
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