2000 Volkswagen GTI 1.8T Road Test
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Every generation has its icons. There are movie stars, business magnates, sports personalities and, lest we forget, cars. In the Thirties it was the Silver Arrows - the Auto Union and Daimler-Benz GP racers had a virtual strangle hold on their competition. The Sixties had the Ferrari GTO in Europe and the Pontiac GTO, among others, in North America - both wonderful performance cars with very different missions. The Seventies and Eighties saw the hot-hatch segment take hold - led by the venerable VW GTI.