Show Notes
What if you could take your favourite classic car - and make it perfect? You can, it’s called a Restomod and after seeing one, Matt now wants one. Surely everyone likes making things better, yes? Oh hello, meet misery Max. He wants to keep everything factory original. Boring! Also on the show, it’s 50 years of the Golf GTi so let’s celebrate the car that invented the hot hatch. We’ll do a countdown from Mark 1 to Mark 8 and pick the best - and the worst - of the fast Golfs. All that plu...
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