KES 580 Million VW Golf: One-of-A-Kind

While it bears some resemblance to a Golf GTI, the only thing it shares in common with the big-selling German car is its windscreen.

It is slightly shorter, lower and wider than a standard GTI and has a set of huge 20-inch alloy wheels and 15-inch brakes to supply the four-wheel drive car with strong stopping power.

As a result, the car was incredibly expensive to produce, setting back Volkswagen around KES 580 million.

Slightly shorter, lower and wider than a standard GTI, it has a set of huge 20-inch alloy wheels and 15-inch brakes

The car cost around 125 times the price of a standard Volkswagen Golf GTI (£26,000) to produce

Volkswagen has no plans to put the Design Vision GTI into production

The car is fitted with a three-litre engine, and does 0-62mph in 3.9 seconds

This makes it around 125 times the price of a standard Volkswagen Golf GTI,

Volkswagen has no plans to put the Design Vision GTI into production, but bosses at the firm say the next generation Golf could take inspiration from it.

Klaus Bischoff, who headed up the team behind the Golf, said: ‘The design team’s brief was to give a spectacular glance into the future of the GTI.’

Volkswagen has said the next generation Golf could take inspiration from the 580 million design

Klaus Bischoff, who headed up the team behind the Golf, said: ‘The design team’s brief was to give a spectacular glance into the future of the GTI’

TopGear.com described it as a ‘design study reflecting some of Volkswagen’s greatest hits’

In a road-test report, TopGear.com said: ‘The GTI concept will do 0-62mph in 3.9 seconds and hit a top speed of 186mph’

These pictures show the inside of the one-of-a-kind Volkswagen Golf Design Vision GTI

TopGear.com described it as a ‘design study reflecting some of Volkswagen’s greatest hits’.

In a road-test report, it said: ‘The GTI concept will do 0-62mph in 3.9 seconds and hit a top speed of 186mph. Not just fast for a Golf, but fast full stop.

‘We were under strict rules not to use full throttle, but after some heavy pleading, full throttle was briefly applied, and oh, our, God. The GTI just explodes in a hail of noise and more noise.’

‘Not just fast for a Golf, but fast full stop,’ said TopGear.com, describing the car after a test drive

TopGear.com was under strict rules not to use full throttle on the test drive

But, after ‘heavy pleading’, TopGear.com was given permission to use full throttle: ‘And oh, our, God… The GTI just explodes in a hail of noise and more noise’

The new design has more than twice the power of a standard Golf GTI