In South Africa, there is a well-known adage in motoring: Regardless of what you drive there is a faster Golf 1 (the car in this post is a prime example of an extremely quick Golf 1). Well it seems that phrase may soon need to apply to the Mk1’s successor. What you’re looking at above is the world’s fastest Golf 2.

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Fast German

The featured car hails from Volkswagen’s home country, Germany. At a recent event called TTT Half Mile Finals the world’s fastest Golf 2 hit an incredible 343,45 km/h. Not only did it manage to reach the top speed of most supercars, it did so in just 800 metres (half a mile) from a standing start. Of course you don’t pull off those kinds of speeds with a stock motor, or a naturally aspirated one at that.

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Volksie Power

Under the bonnet is a six-cylinder that left the factory in a Golf R32. However the motor has been bumped up to 3,3-litres. A massive turbocharger feeds the engine with, what we guess must be, copious amounts of boost. The compressed air is chilled by a mammoth intercooler that, somehow, manages to fit inside the Golf’s stock bumper. The engine is good for 1 094 kW or roughly ten times more than a Golf 2 offered from the showroom floor. Power is delivered to the ground through an all-wheel-drive set-up.

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The world’s fastest Golf 2 is pretty quick over the standing quarter mile as well. The car can turn a circa nine-second quarter-mile run at 280 km/h according to the company’s Facebook page. Whichever measure you use to judge performance, this relatively stock-looking Golf 2 is pretty bas-@$$.