The way you guys cut between the owner's dialogue while he was driving and while he was in the garage was epic.

The Mk1 golf will always be my first love, unfortunately I've never seen a GTI in person, hopefully I'll complete the circle of driving all the Mks one day by seeing and driving it.

I owned a 1984 Gti in the same color...what a great vehicle to own. I owned the car for 6 years and had very little problems with it..it was a real pocket rocket in its days...I had bigger valves fitted and boy did she run rings around the Gti 16v..I remember my drive to Cape Town and the guy with his Gti 16v..the look on his face was priceless..he got a solid whipping all the way into CT. I really miss my baby..😀😀

What a fantastic car and excellent example. I grew up with Golf 1 and 2 models. I have owned 2x Mk1 Golf's and a Mk2 GTI 8V and they are all amazing cars to drive. You right that you always feel connected when driving them they don't have power steering so you have alot more weight at parking speeds but alot more feedback and response than modern cars steering systems. The 8V 1.8 engine is a legend with excellent mid range torque and throttle response and with a nice throaty exhaust. 0-100 in 8.2sec what I recorded with my standard 82kw engine and top speed of 205kmh indicated. Not bad for a low powered hatch

My First Gti was the same colour in a 1984 ,I just took delivery of my 2024 Gti , 40 years later and it’s still fun to drive.

Throwing it back and it ain't even a Thursday. I love this!

That car was my first love. Still is. Great video and great owner.

Love my MK7.5, but this is where it all started. Legendary car

After long day of work there’s nothing better than seeing a new vid uploaded❤️this Is what motoring all about

They so rare, I want to own one 😭😅👀😩

I bought my 1984 Rabbit GTI mid year if I recall correctly. Sold it in 2002 for $1000 when I bought my first Honda CRV. I have a 2017 CRV today. Sold the Rabbit with 186,000 miles on it. Except for changing the Alternator every 2-3 years due to a engineering flaw, the car ran perfectly. To this day I miss that car. Fun to drive & very quick considering it only had 90 hp.

Absolutely love it, I miss my mk1 GTI so much ! Would love to get another in a few years

Having access to a 2 door GT i must say these are super cool a south african staple and still turns heads like crazy. Its needs that stealie wheels the GTi came with and that side sticker then it will look on point.😁👍

Awesome video! Awesome car! Makes me love my little Uno Turbo even more. Hot hatches are the new collector cars.

The editing is great but it just doesn't feel right when you hear the car revving up high and the footage shows the rev counter 3000rpm @ 3:11

This is what a love for a car is. U can see his joy

This review is amazing and the car looks EPIC. It's such a joy to see the owner's passion and excitement. I can totally relate to him, as I'm humbled and fortunate to still own an almost stock standard one myself. Thanks @konigcars

The footage and video editing is awesome 👌👏

Awesome! We had a white Mk1 GTS 1600 with a 4 speed gearbox and "GTS" decals running on the lower section of the rear doors

Somehow I’m getting the feeling that you like this car ? Great job, video. Thanks, RickGTI….. 🇺🇸🌴

Congratulations for the video and the way you presented this magnificent Golf GTI. Just a note! There are indeed 4-door Golf GTIs in Europe. I'm from Portugal and I have one from 1983. Regards!

Love the simplistic beauty of this car.

Quite possibly South Africa's favourite car - after, of course, the Toyota Hilux, the Toyota Corolla and (my personal favourite) the Ford Cortina!

I had a 1984 gunmetal GTi. Still the most fun I ever had. Really miss that pocket rocket 😢 The fit and finishing was way superior to the later Citi Golf

Never own one but some day i will, love these cars, a classic, a true rare gem❤😎🇳🇴

Well done @Konigcars on the feature!

Awesome little legend! How about featuring an original Fiat Uno Turbo which was one of the first pocket rockets and left many cars standing and embarrassed a lot of bigger cars at the traffic lights.

My second new car ever was a 1983 Golf GTi 1.8. Bright red. A great car of its time but being right hand drive in the UK, just like S Africa, it got the nickname of 'The Exocet' after the French missile. It went like a bomb and nothing would stop it. Basically the brakes were absolutely terrible due to the servo being on the left and actuated by rods and bell cranks from the brake pedal. I see that the featured model has wipers properly converted for right hand drive. The UK ones, two door only, didn't and had a big unwired area in the top right of the windscreen, which was a huge annoyance to most drivers in the wet. The gearshift was often quite reluctant to move out of second gear at times on my example. Otherwise the featured car is very much like mine was. The GTi featured one of the first ever low profile tyres. Can't remember the size but they would hardly qualify as being low profile these days being, iirc, 70 profile. Standard profile being 85% aspect ratio.

Love too see a opel GTC it was once of the golf GTI biggest rival back in the day . This car looks awesome no lie about that

Everything he said is true... I owned one, until it was stolen. In good old South Africa.

Hats off to this genuine bloke... awesome review

Great review! Uitenhage, my hometown!!!😃

Great car and a great review. The owner is such a passionate person, love his vibe. Buuut, what I want to know is how the hell did you manage to shoot in Sandton with no cars on the road. I have worked in Sandton most of my life and I have never seen it so quiet unless it was during hard lockdown.

My first car. Bought one of the last models (1984) in 1985 with 10000 km on the clock for R10500-00 at VW Lyttleton. Traded it in 1988 with 76000 km on the clock and got R12500-00 for it.

I used to have a 3 door one the same colour as that. I wish I still had it, but I traded it in on a Peugeot 205 1.9 GTi. I wish I still had that too.

There’s something about Mk1 Golfs. And this one is the granddaddy of them all. Unfortunately they stopped production way before I was born. But having owned the 2010 LTD edition golf. I loved it and forever will love it. I’ve never seen the Mk1 GTI and I truly wish to

So Glad I Found This Channel! Much Love From U.S.💚. I Wish We Got The 4 Door! Instead We Got The Dodge Omni GLH(Goes Like Hell)🤦🏽‍♂️😂

Golf GTI, GTX, GTS. GT GOLF'S ALL PRODUCED IN VOLKSWAGEN SOUTH AFRICA PLANT IN THE HEART OF UITENHAGE IN THE EASTERN CAPE JUST 30 KM FROM THEA NEAREST BEACH IN PORT ELIZABETH

I'd love to have one of these cars! My friend has one but he doesn't know how to take care of it very well.................

Awesome car, awesomely shot and edited video

Mine standing for years. Nice little car

Great review... Awsome owner

Beautiful car which found it's perfect owner, knowing what pearl he owns. One small correction however, the four door gti was also available in e.g. Germany.

So beautiful 🤩

I'm a simple man...I see a gti I press play.

Very nice, I was sketchy at first when I saw GTI lol

Stunning! Just and its only a small just but a just nonetheless...the tow bar 🤦🏼‍♂️

How did I almost miss this!

Great car, I want one.

I absolutely loved mine , what a great car itwas

I prefer the CTI, epic car

what a beauty!

Old cars are the best

Thinking man’s sport car. Perfect classic sport car to own is a Porsche 911 993. (1995-1998)

Wow!! Love this video, absolutely amazing

Haval Jolion pleaseeeeeee

Awesome video 👍

This is my dream car

What a DREAM car!!!

Enjoy it mate🥰

This one is the one super fresh

This is the same car a dealership near wemmer pan Jhb south sold to someone else as I was on my way to collect it as agreed back in 1990..🤨🥺

Does anyone know where in SA i could buy the gti badges

You know it's genuinely South African if he refers Traffic Light as a robot.

Great stuff! Can we see more classics please?

The mk1 GTI is similar to the CTI only difference is the pistons and gearbox both 82kw but 0-00 the GTI is quicker than the CTi

Great Video! Great Car!

I love this car have one myself

Awesome car. I’ll just remove the towbar for cleaner look and weight reduction 😂

How much did you guys pay for it? Like what would be the market value for one of these today? I heard you say you had to split 3 ways.

Hyper Shame on Volkswagen for ending the Citi Golf!!! #BringBackTheCiti

It's feisty

Is it for sale?? Very very rare!

Is you car for sale? Ok I am sure not, but where could one even find another like this?

Sentimental tail in dead! 👏👏👏👏

Hello😁 Can you please do a review on the new Kia Sonet🥰

Don't see many 4door GTI around

CTI VS GTI? SAME THING?

How much would one of these cost nowadays?

I hate that it has a tow bar on it

Hushh my baby don't you cry Daddy bought a GTI! LOL. I'm inlove with FFFFFFF sound, Please keep it ass she is

If I were the owner of this car, I'd turbo charge the shit out of it.

Strange that thís one has the GTI in capital letters : the South African ones usually had it written like this : GTi

Also the start of the trend that brought us the worst drivers on the road.

Genesis

Oh my gosh, I just noticed this car has four doors. Sorry mate, this is NOT a true mk1 GTI.

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4 doors GTI?lowe it..

Where ciro We miss him

What a nice review! PLEASE do more of these 😍

Blesswhat to thee nice car. Itits off cause making noise and going slow bud itits note a problem. We still admire it with gustow.