Ushering in the 21st century, Volkswagen's Y2K-era design deserves our respect.
The year is 2002, Y2K hysteria has passed, and Alicia Keys, Avril Lavigne, and Ashanti are among those competing for the top spots on Billboard's year-end chart. Tens of thousands of MK4-era Golfs, GTIs, and Jettas are freshly rolling through American streets. MK4 production had started five years prior, and its reputation of servicing nightmares and cracking interiors hadn't yet developed among owners.
Running from the Frankfurt Airport to the Nürburgring on a route so out of the way it couldn't even be called the scenic route, the banks of the Rhine River were sounded by a whistling turbocharger and skipping front tires. The MK4 example I was driving wasn't just special for its protruding lip and extra undercarriage. Powered by a 1.
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