With 105 hp, it’s 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine was nipping at the heels of the MK1 GTI, though a larger 1.9-liter engine would come soon after, bumping output to 126 hp. Various 205 styling ...

Regarding the car Jean-Claude Van Damme drove that no one knew about in the U.S., it’s the Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk1. This model boasts 150 horsepower and 205 Nm of maximum torque, with a V5 engine.

No great surprise there, given that the 205 remains one of the greatest hot hatchbacks of all time and the car that more than any other, bar perhaps the Mk1 Golf GTI, can lay claim to defining the ...

I can tell you now that if I’d been foolish enough to take this level of liberty in a 205 GTI, he’d have been running ... on the evidence of my time with it, the Mk1 Astra GTE is unfairly ...